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Ponencias en congresos:
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Model for Technical Debt Management Considering Uncertainty and Time
Año:2013
Áreas de investigación
  • Ciencias de la computación y tecnología informática
Datos
Descripción
In the last few years, technical debt [1] has been used as a useful means for making the intrinsic cost of the internal software quality weaknesses visible. This visibility is made possible by quantifying this cost. Specifically, technical debt is expressed in terms of two main concepts: principal and interest [2]. The principal is the cost of eliminating?or reducing?the impact of a, so called, technical debt item in a software system; whereas the interest is the recurring cost, over a time period, of not eliminating a technical debt item. Previous works about technical debt [2][3][4] are mainly focused on estimating principal and interest, and on performing a cost-benefit analysis. This cost-benefit analysis allows one to determine if to remove technical debt is profitable and to prioritize which items incurring in technical debt should be fixed first. Nevertheless, for these previous works technical debt is flat along the time. However the introduction of new factors to estimate technical debt may produce non flat models that allow us to produce more accurate predictions. These factors should be used to estimate principal and interest, and to perform cost-benefit analysis related to technical debt. In this paper, we take a step forward introducing the uncertainty about the interest, and the time frame factors so that it becomes possible to depict a number of possible future scenarios. Estimations obtained without considering the possible evolution of the interest over time may be less accurate as they consider simplistic scenarios without changes.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA?1s3) ? Work in Progress Session.
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Santander, Spain
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-3-902457-38-7
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
04/09/2013
Fecha fin congreso
06/09/2013
Desde la página
19
Hasta la página
20
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the work in Progress Session held in connection wieht SEAA 2013. SEA-Publications: SEA-SR-38
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Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de tecnología de software y sistemas
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Tecnologías del Software y Sistemas Multimedia para la Sostenibilidad (CITSEM)