An open challenge in Technical Debt (TD) research is to translate TD threats into economic opportunities, so development teams can make a strong case to the business side to invest on paying off TD by increasing Technical Wealth (TW). For this, a comprehensive TD/TW theory (e.g., standardizing ambiguous terms into a consistent vocabulary) is needed to formalize and consolidate relationships between the costs of technical debt and benefits of technical wealth. We aim to gather practitioners and researchers working in this area, to share experiences, concur on terminologies and evaluation guidelines.
We are interested in all topics that help address the goals of the workshop outlined above, including but not limited to:
frameworks/methodologies to compare/synthesize empirical studies on TD/TW
moderator factors for empirical studies on TD/TW
frameworks for comparing approaches and tools for TD detection and TW improvement
conceptual and technical differences between approaches for analyzing or managing TD/TW
cross-comparison of terminologies used in the body of knowledge on TD/TW
social debt-related factors (e.g., social or organisational shortcomings) affecting TD/TW
Dec 05
2017
Dec 08
2017
Draft paper submission deadline
Draft Paper Acceptance Notification
Final Paper Deadline
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