Decision-making framework for refactoring

Technical debt prioritization

“…We identified categories similar to the decision-making criteria presented by Riegel and Doerr [11] and Ribeiro et al [10]. Like Leppanen et al [7], we present a framework to decide on the payment of a technical debt item, but our model is based on the decision criteria of the respondents. The first and fourth findings presented in this discussion confirm the literature.…”

“…However, researchers rarely seem to investigate how decisions are made in practice. Leppanen et al [7] interviewed professionals and developed a framework for refactoring (one way to pay off technical debt). They found that static and dynamic code analysis can contribute to perceiving the need to pay off technical debt.…”

“…Our study extends Becker's [1] theoretical process by studying how prioritization decisions are made in practice. Our study also builds on Leppanen et al 's framework [7] by identifying decision criteria.…”

Technical debt prioritization: methods, techniques, and a large exploratory study

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“…Several theoretical surveys and discussions based on interviews, questionnaires, and observations were carried out to identify the elements related to the prioritization and decision-making process (Ernst et al, 2015;Martini and Bosch, 2015b;Leppanen et al, 2015;S. Freire, Rios, Gutierrez, et al, 2020;Pina, Seaman, et al, 2022;S.…”