Software Engineering Institute

Technical debt is a metaphor that software developers and managers increasingly use to communicate key tradeoffs related to release and quality issues. The Managing Technical Debt workshop series has, since 2010, brought together practitioners and researchers to discuss and define issues related to technical debt and how they can be studied. This collection includes presentations on practical experience with technical debt and approaches to evaluate and manage technical debt.

The workshop summary was published as Technical Debt: Beyond Definition to Understanding Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 40, Issue 2, March 2015, pages 32-34.

The proceedings are available at IEEE Xplore.

Sessions and presentations included:

• Welcome to the Sixth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, Carolyn Seaman
• A Framework for Estimating Interest on Technical Debt by Monitoring Developer Activity Related to Code Comprehension, Vallary Singh, Will Snipes, and Nicholas Kraft
• Are All Methods in Your Data Access Objects (DAOs) in the Right Place? A Preliminary Study, Mauricio Aniche, Gustavo Oliva, and Marco Gerosa
• Explicating, Understanding, and Managing Technical Debt from Self-Driving Miniature Car Projects, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Christian Berger, and Jörgen Hansson
• Technical Debt and the Effect of Agile Software Development Practices on It: An Industry Practitioner Survey, Johannes Holvitie, Ville Leppänen, and Sami Hyrynsalmi
• The Correspondence Between Software Quality Models and Technical Debt Estimation Approaches, Isaac Griffith, Zadia Codabux, Derek Reimanis, Ajay Deo, Byron J. Williams, and Clemente Izurieta
• Towards an Ontology of Terms on Technical Debt, Nicolli S. R. Alves, Leilane F. Ribeiro, Vivyane Caires, Thiago S. Mendes, and Rodrigo O. Spínola
• When-to-Release Software Product Decisions in Consideration of Technical Debt, Jason Ho and Guenther Ruhe