Abstract Context: Requirements Technical Debt are related to the distance between the
ideal value of the specification and the actual implementation of the system, which are …

In software engineering, technical debt (TD) has been widely investigated, but debt
regarding social issues, people, and processes has not been explored as much. It should be …

Context: Technical debt (TD) refers to non-optimal decisions made in software projects that
may lead to short-term benefits, but potentially harm the system's maintenance in the long …

Background: Code refactoring is widely recognized as an essential software engineering
practice to improve the understandability and maintainability of the source code. The Extract …

Integrating automation and autonomy into self-driving laboratories promises more efficient
and reproducible experimentation while freeing scientists to focus on intellectual challenges …

Context: Companies frequently invest effort to remove technical issues believed to impact
software qualities, such as removing anti-patterns or coding styles violations. Objective: We …

Underwater noise emissions from marine vehicles contribute to increasing ocean ambient
noise levels, which is a threat to marine ecosystems. Passive acoustic monitoring, normally …

In software development, the term “technical debt”(TD) is used to characterize short-term
solutions and workarounds implemented in source code which may incur a long-term cost …

Background Pull requests are a common practice for making contributions and reviewing
them in both open-source and industrial contexts. Objective Our goal is to understand …

Nowadays, AI-based systems have achieved outstanding results and have outperformed
humans in different domains. However, the processes of training AI models and inferring …