Aligning technical debt prioritization with business objectives: A multiple-case study

• Main Authors: REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo, KULESZA, Uirá, TREUDE, Christoph, FEITOSA, D’angellys Cavalcanti, LIMA, Aliandro Higino Guedes
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Business Process Management; Technical Debt; Technical Debt Management; Technical Debt Prioritization; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8825; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9828/viewcontent/icsme18b.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor to describe the trade-off between short-term workarounds and long-term goals in software development. Despite being widely used to explain technical issues in business terms, industry and academia still lack a proper way to manage technical debt while explicitly con...