How Experience Impacts Practitioners’ Perception of Causes and Effects of Technical Debt

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dc.contributor.authorFreire, Sávio
dc.contributor.authorRios, Nicolli
dc.contributor.authorPérez, Boris
dc.contributor.authorCastellanos, Camilo
dc.contributor.authorCorreal, Darío
dc.contributor.authorRamač, Robert
dc.contributor.authorMandić, Vladimir
dc.contributor.authorTaušan, Nebojša
dc.contributor.authorLópez, Gustavo
dc.contributor.authorPacheco, Alexia
dc.contributor.authorFalessi, Davide
dc.contributor.authorMendonça, Manoel
dc.contributor.authorIzurieta, Clemente
dc.contributor.authorSeaman, Carolyn
dc.contributor.authorSpínola, Rodrigo
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-13T15:05:19Z
dc.date.available2021-05-13T15:05:19Z
dc.description14th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2021)en_US
dc.description.abstractContext: The technical debt (TD) metaphor helps to conceptualize the pending issues and trade-offs made during software development. Knowing TD causes can support in defining preventive actions and having information about effects aids in the prioritization of TD payment. Goal: To investigate the impact of the experience level on how practitioners perceive the most likely causes that lead to TD and the effects of TD that have the highest impacts on software projects. Method: We approach this topic by surveying 227 practitioners. Results: While experienced software developers focus on human factors as TD causes and external quality attributes as TD effects, low experienced developers seem to concentrate on technical issues as causes and internal quality issues and increased project effort as effects. Missing any ofthese types of causes could lead a team to miss the identification of important TD, or miss opportunities to preempt TD. On the other hand, missing important effects could hamper effective planning or erode the effectiveness of decisions about prioritizing TD items. Conclusion: Having software development teams composed of practitioners with a homogeneous experience level can erode the team’s ability to effectively manage TD.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Brasil (CAPES) Finance Code 001. This research was also supported in part by funds received from the David A. Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which was created by the Laureate International Universities network to support research focused on teaching and learning.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.cs.montana.edu/izurieta/pubs/chase2021.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent10 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proccedings postprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2jdh5-2igd
dc.identifier.citationSávio Freire et al., How Experience Impacts Practitioners’ Perception of Causes and Effects of Technical Debt , 14th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2021), https://www.cs.montana.edu/izurieta/pubs/chase2021.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/21512
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
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