TechDebt 2020
In conjunction with ICSE 2020
Seoul, South Korea October 8-9, 2020
The Managing Technical Debt workshops have been occuring since 2010. Below are links to information for our previous workshops.
Managing Technical Debt Workshops
TechDebt 2018
Gothenburg, Sweden
May 27–28, 2018
The First International Conference on Technical Debt was collocated with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '18). This conference convened leading software researchers, practitioners, and tool vendors to explore theoretical and practical techniques that manage technical debt.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2017
Cologne, Germany
May 22, 2017
The Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2017). The main topic of this year's workshop was on the impact of agile development approaches on the management of technical debt.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2016
Raleigh, North Carolina
October 4, 2016
The Eighth Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 32nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016). This workshop brought together leading software maintenance researchers and practitioners to explore techniques that quantify principal and interest.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2015
Bremen, Germany
October 2, 2015
The Seventh International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015). This workshop covered tools for measuring and managing technical debt, application of financial theories, source code analysis, refactoring, and empirical industrial studies.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2014
Victoria, BC, Canada
September 30, 2014
The Sixth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2014). This workshop focused on practical experience with technical debt and approaches to evaluate and manage technical debt.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2013b
Baltimore, Maryland
October 9, 2013
The Fifth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the Seventh International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2013). The workshop shared emerging practices used in software development organizations and emphasized the need for more research on this topic.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2013a
San Francisco, California
May 20, 2013
The Fourth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013). This workshop highlighted current confusion in industry on the definition of technical debt, limits of the metaphor, criteria to determine what is technical debt, and areas of further research.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2012
Zürich, Switzerland
June 5, 2012
The Third International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 34rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012). The workshop focused on managing technical debt as a part of the research agenda for the software engineering field, in particular on eliciting and visualizing debt and creating payback strategies.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2011
Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii
May 23, 2011
The Second International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt was collocated with the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011). The workshop considered how to manage technical debt, assessed current practice in industry, and refined a research agenda for software engineering in this area.
Browse PresentationsManaging Technical Debt 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 2-3, 2010
The First International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt took place at the SEI and was published through the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER 2010). Workshop participants discussed how the research community could study this concept and offer software engineers techniques for managing tradeoffs based on models of economic impact.
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