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A Framework to Aid in Decision Making for

Technical Debt Management

7th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (October 2, 2015)

Carlos Fernández-Sánchez, Juan Garbajosa, Agustín Yagüe

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Introduction• Technical debt management consists of

identifying the sources of extra costs insoftware maintenance and analyzing when itis profitable to invest effort into improving asoftware system [5].


7th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (October 2, 2015) A Framework to Aid in Decision Making for Technical Debt Management,

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Research methodSystematic Mapping• Research questions

• RQ1 - What elements are taken into account to manage technical debt when making decisions in a software project?

• RQ2 - What elements are considered from the various stakeholders’ points of view?

• Search string: “technical debt”• Several databases (IEEE Xplore, ACM, Scopus,

ScienceDirect, and SpringerLink)• 795 analyzed paper• 51 selected papers



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Main results• Conceptual framework of elements for technical debt

management• Elements of the framework for technical debt management

• Mapping of elements with different stakeholders’ points of view



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Conclusions and Further work

►The presented framework will help to build specificmodels to aid in decision making for technical debtmanagement.

►The framework will be extended by introducing therelationships among the elements to establish howone element affects or depends on the others.

►To prioritize which elements are more relevant thanothers.

►The framework will be used to define technical debtmanagement models for specific systems.



Thank you very much for your attention

Questions?

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Elements of the framework for technical debtmanagement



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Mapping of elements with different stakeholders’ points of view



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