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Second international workshop on managing technical debt (MTD 2011)

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Ipek Ozkaya,

Philippe Kruchten,

Robert Nord,

Nanette BrownAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 1212 - 1213

https://doi.org/10.1145/1985793.1986051

Published: 21 May 2011 Publication History

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The technical debt metaphor is gaining significant traction in the software development community as a way to understand and communicate issues of intrinsic quality, value, and cost. The idea is that developers sometimes accept compromises in a system in one dimension (e.g., modularity) to meet an urgent demand in some other dimension (e.g., a deadline), and that such compromises incur a "debt": on which "interest" has to be paid and which should be repaid at some point for the long-term health of the project. Little is known about technical debt, beyond feelings and opinions. The software engineering research community has an opportunity to study this phenomenon and improve the way it is handled. We can offer software engineers a foundation for managing such trade-offs based on models of their economic impacts. The goal of this second workshop is to discuss managing technical debt as a part of the research agenda for the software engineering field.

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1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering

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ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

May 2011

1258 pages

ISBN:9781450304450

DOI:10.1145/1985793

General Chair:
Richard N. Taylor
UC Irvine, USA
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Harald Gall
University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Nenad Medvidović
University of Southern California, USA

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