Pitfalls and Solutions for Technical Debt Management in Agile Software Projects

Rios, Nicolli; Pérez, Boris; Castellanos, Camilo; Correal, Darío; Ramac, Robert; Mandić, Vladimir; Taušan, Nebojša; Pacheco, Alexia; López, Gustavo; Mendonça, Manoel; Izurieta, Clemente; Falessi, Davide; Seaman, Carolyn; Spínola, Rodrigo O.

doi:10.1109/ms.2021.3101990

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“…Beyond certification needs, the authors suggest that the alignment of Agile and OT CMMI‐DEV V2.0 practices is aimed to share knowledge, improve performance, and contribute to the alignment of organizational and IT goals. This paper is based on two main pillars: agile and process improvement, being the combination of these two research areas one of the traditional research lines of the community 5–7 . This paper is a clear continuation of a set of efforts on the topic focusing the endeavors on the assessment of training aspects.…”

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Global challenges reflected in software process improvement

Colomo‐Palacios

Messnarz²,

Bíró

2023

J Software Evolu Process

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This special issue comprises a selected set of high‐quality and extended articles of the 28th Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI) Conference, held in 2021 in Krems, Austria.Conferences were held in Dublin (Ireland) in 1994, in Vienna (Austria) in 1995, in Brighton (UK) in 1996, in Budapest (Hungary) in 1997, in Gothenburg (Sweden) in 1998, in Pori (Finland) in 1999, in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2000, in Limerick (Ireland) in 2001, in Nuremberg (Germany) in 2002, in Graz (Austria) in 2003, in Trondheim (Norway) in 2004, in Budapest (Hungary) in 2005, in Joensuu (Finland) in 2006, in Potsdam (Germany) in 2007, in Dublin (Ireland) in 2008, in Alcala (Spain) in 2009, in Grenoble (France) in 2010, in Roskilde (Denmark) in 2011, in Vienna (Austria) in 2012, in Dundalk (Ireland) in 2013, in Luxembourg in 2014, in Ankara (Turkey) in 2015, in Graz (Austria) in 2016, in Ostrava (Czech Republic) in 2017, in Bilbao (Spain) in 2018, in Edinburgh (UK) in 2019, in Düsseldorf (Germany) in 2020, and in Krems (Austria) in 2021.

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“…This paper is based on two main pillars: agile and process improvement, being the combination of these two research areas one of the traditional research lines of the community. [5][6][7] This paper is a clear continuation of a set of efforts on the topic focusing the endeavors on the assessment of training aspects. professional training.…”

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Global challenges reflected in software process improvement

Colomo‐Palacios

Messnarz²,

Bíró

2023

J Software Evolu Process

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“…It aims to investigate the causes, effects, and management of TD in software projects. Several results of the project have been disseminated so far, for example: the empirical design of the InsighTD and the results of its Brazilian replication on causes and effects of TD (Rios et al 2020), probabilistic diagrams of causes and effects of TD (Rios et al 2019), the set of causes and effects of TD collected from six InsighTD replications (Ramač et al 2022, Freire et al 2021b, the relation between TD and process models (Rios et al 2021), TD prevention (Freire et al 2020a, Freire et al 2021a, and practices and impediments to repay TD items (Freire et al 2020b, Perez et al 2020, Freire et al 2021a, Freire et al 2021c. Other results from the project can be found at http://www.td-survey.com/publication-map/.…”

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Investigating the Relationship between Technical Debt Management and Software Development Issues

Berenguer¹,

Borges²,

Rios

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Context: The presence of technical debt (TD) brings risks to software projects. Managers must continuously find a cost-benefit balance between the benefits of incurring in TD and the costs of its presence in a software project. Much attention has been given to TD related to coding issues, but other types of debt can also have impactful consequences on projects. Aims: This paper seeks to elaborate on the growing need to expand TD research to other areas of software development, by analyzing six elements related to TD management, namely: causes, effects, preventive practices, reasons for non-prevention, repayment practices, and reasons for non-repayment of TD. Method: We survey and analyze, quantitatively and qualitatively, the answers of 653 software industry practitioners on TD to investigate how the previously mentioned elements are related to coding and non-coding issues of the software development process. Results: Coding issues are commonly related to the investigated elements but, indeed, they are only part of the TD Management stage. Issues related to the project planning and management, human factors, knowledge, quality, process, requirements, verification, validation, and test, design, architecture, and the organization are also common sources of TD. We organize the results in a hump diagram and specialize it considering the point of view of practitioners that have used agile, hybrid, and traditional process models in their projects. Conclusion: The hump diagram, in combination with the detailed results, provides guidance on what to expect from the presence of TD and how to react to it considering several issues of software development. The results shed light on TD management of software elements, beyond source code related artifacts.

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“…These activities, when carried out inappropriately, cause failures in software development, promoting the emergence of technical debts, in this case, requirements debts [2]. However, at some point, these debts need to be paid and interest will accrue in the software development process [3]. Requirements debt is a type of technical debt that comprises flaws in the requirements specification, characterizing the distance between the desired specification of requirements and the actual implementation of these requirements [4] [5].…”

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OntoReD: Requirements debt Ontology

Bonfim,

Benitti

2024

Preprint

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The practices proposed in agile methods to speed up software development, although they are beneficial to the organization, can affect the way in which requirements engineering activities are conducted as these practices are not explicit. These activities, when not carried out properly, can result in poorly understood, omitted and poorly specified requirements, leading to requirements debt and can compromise other stages of software development. However, requirements debts are little explored and, on many occasions, are unknown, not monitored or managed efficiently, which causes high maintenance costs over time. The objective of this article is to propose an Ontology focused on requirements debt in the agile context. The research was conducted through an investigation of the state of practice supported by \textit{grounded theory}, unifying the result with information obtained in two systematic studies of the literature: a systematic mapping of the literature that consists of identifying the causes, consequences and practices aimed at debts of requirements and a tertiary study focused on debt management, supporting the knowledge obtained about requirements debt and serving as input for the construction of an ontology, called “OntoReD”.

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Pitfalls and Solutions for Technical Debt Management in Agile Software Projects

Cited by 12 publications

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Global challenges reflected in software process improvement

Global challenges reflected in software process improvement

Investigating the Relationship between Technical Debt Management and Software Development Issues

OntoReD: Requirements debt Ontology

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