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Challenges in understanding, measuring, and managing technical debt |
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| Author: | Wickström, Sami1 |
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1University of Oulu, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Information Processing Science |
| Format: | ebook |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.4 MB) |
| Pages: | 18 |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-202303221290 |
| Language: | English |
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Oulu : S. Wickström,
2023
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| Publish Date: | 2023-03-23 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Tutor: |
Rantala, Leevi |
| Description: |
Abstract Technical debt as a concept is vast and somewhat abstract area. The most basic definition of it is that it is analogous to a bank loan, which must be paid back so you don’t get stated bankrupt. Number of activities required to manage the debt are numerous, as 15 different sources of possible debt are identified. Technical debt management activities, possible sources, and outcomes that unpaid debt might bring are documented in this paper’s background section. Results section contains challenges that technical debt management processes are encountering in understanding, measuring, and managing the debt. Even with existing empirical research on technical debt management, research and industry are having hard time in trying to find the right tools and areas to measure to gain meaningful information on numerous types of technical debt. Without the right metrics, the monitoring tools are not able to provide useful information to aid in communication and decision-making. Currently, the tools focus mainly on code smells (code debt) and are not able to measure the most important aspects of the debt, design, and architectural debt. This research suggests future research topics to improve existing knowledge on certain areas such as the previously mentioned ability to meaningfully measure different kinds of debts. see all
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| Copyright information: |
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