Software maintainability is a crucial property of software projects. It can be defined as the
ease with which a software system or component can be modified to be corrected, improved …

Technical debt, a metaphor for the long-term consequences of weak software development,
must be managed to keep it under control. The main goal of this article is to identify and …

Technical debt is a term that has been used to describe the increased cost of changing or
maintaining a system due to shortcuts taken during its development. As technical debt is a …

Technical debt is a metaphor for delayed software maintenance tasks. Incurring technical
debt may bring short-term benefits to a project, but such benefits are often achieved at the …

Practices designed to expedite the delivery of stakeholder value can paradoxically lead to
unexpected rework costs that ultimately degrade the flow of value over time. This is …

With a large and rapidly changing codebase, Google software engineers are constantly
paying interest on various forms of technical debt. Google engineers also make efforts to pay …

Context Previous work has shown that one can explore code comments to detect Self-
Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) using a contextualized vocabulary. However, current …

The identification of technical debt (TD) is an important step to effectively manage it. In this
context, a set of indicators has been used by automated approaches to identify TD items, but …

Tool support is essential to help developers in understanding the memory behavior of
complex software systems. Anomalies such as memory leaks can dramatically impact …

Context: Technical Debt (TD) is a metaphor used to describe code that is" not quite right."
Although TD studies have gained momentum, TD has yet to be studied as thoroughly in non …