Identifying self-admitted technical debt in open source projects using text mining

• Main Authors: HUANG, Qiao, SHIHAB, Emad, XIA, Xin, LO, David, LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Source code comments; Technical debt; Text mininga; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3793; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4795/viewcontent/101007_2Fs10664_017_9522_4.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Technical debt is a metaphor to describe the situation in which long-term code quality is traded for short-term goals in software projects. Recently, the concept of self-admitted technical debt (SATD) was proposed, which considers debt that is intentionally introduced, e.g., in the form of quick or...