Title :
Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice
Author :
Kruchten, Philippe ; Nord, Robert L. ; Ozkaya, Ipek
Author_Institution :
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2012.167
