Technical Debt
Blog Posts
10 Years of Research in Technical Debt and an Agenda for the Future
This post reviews the evolution of the field of technical debt and identifies open research questions that will drive future developments.
• By Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya
In Technical Debt
Automatically Detecting Technical Debt Discussions with Machine Learning
Technical debt (TD) refers to choices made during software development that achieve short-term goals at the expense of long-term quality....
• By Robert Nord
In Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Data-Driven Management of Technical Debt
Technical debt communicates the tradeoff between the short-term benefits of rapid delivery and the long-term value of developing a software system that is easy to evolve, modify, repair, and sustain. …
• By Ipek Ozkaya
In Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Managing the Consequences of Technical Debt: 5 Stories from the Field
If you participate in the development of software, the chances are good that you have experienced the consequences of technical debt....
• By Ipek Ozkaya, Robert Nord
In Technical Debt
Automating Design Analysis
Software design problems, often the result of optimizing for delivery speed, are a critical part of long-term software costs. Automatically detecting such design problems is a high priority for software …
• By Neil Ernst
In Software Architecture
The Future of Managing Technical Debt
Software engineers increasingly recognize technical debt as a problem they care about, but they lack methods and tools to help them strategically plan, track, and pay down debt. The concept …
• By Robert Nord
In Technical Debt
Early Software Vulnerability Detection with Technical Debt
Does technical debt also correlate with an increase in security vulnerabilities? To answer this question this blog post describes research we conducted that tested the relationship between software vulnerabilities and …
• By Robert Nord, Edward Schwartz
In Technical Debt
Got Technical Debt? Track Technical Debt to Improve Your Development Practices
. In this blog post, we describe our classification method and some implications of tracking debt for both practice and research.
• By Stephany Bellomo
In Technical Debt
A Case Study in Locating the Architectural Roots of Technical Debt
In this post, which was excerpted from a recently published paper, we present a case study of our approach with SoftServe Inc., a leading software outsourcing company. We show how …
• By Rick Kazman
In Technical Debt
The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015: Technical Debt, DevOps, Graph Analytics, Secure Coding, and Testing
This blog post highlights the top 10 posts published in 2015. As we did with our mid-year review, we will include links to additional related resources that readers might find …
• By Douglas C. Schmidt
