DocumentCode
1324820
Title
Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice
Author
Kruchten, Philippe ; Nord, Robert L. ; Ozkaya, Ipek
Author_Institution
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Volume
29
Issue
6
fYear
2012
Firstpage
18
Lastpage
21
Abstract
The metaphor of technical debt in software development was introduced two decades ago to explain to nontechnical stakeholders the need for what we call now "refactoring." As the term is being used to describe a wide range of phenomena, this paper proposes an organization of the technical debt landscape, and introduces the papers on technical debt contained in the issue.
Keywords
Investments; Risk management; Software maintenance; Software quality; Sofware testing; evolvability; maintainability; refactoring; software quality; technical debt;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MS.2012.167
Filename
6336722
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