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Reducing friction in software development Avgeriou, Paris; Kruchten, Philippe; Nord, Robert L; Ozkaya, Ipek; Seaman, Carolyn

Abstract

Software is being produced at such a rate that its growth hinders its sustainability. Technical debt, as a concept encompassing internal software quality, evolution and maintenance, re-engineering and economics is growing to become dominant as a driver of progress in the future of software engineering. Technical debt spans the entire software engineering lifecycle and its management capitalizes on recent advances made in fields such as source code analysis, quality measurement, and project management. Managing technical debt in the future will be an investment activity applying economics theories, will effectively address the architecture level, will offer specific processes and tools employing data science and analytics to support decision making, and will be an essential part of the software engineering curriculum. Getting ahead of the software quality and innovation curve will inevitably involve establishing technical debt management as a core software engineering practice from theory to its applications.

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Reducing friction in software development
Creator
Avgeriou, Paris; Kruchten, Philippe; Nord, Robert L; Ozkaya, Ipek; Seaman, Carolyn
Date Issued
2016-01
Description
Software is being produced at such a rate that its growth hinders its sustainability. Technical debt, as a concept encompassing internal software quality, evolution and maintenance, re-engineering and economics is growing to become dominant as a driver of progress in the future of software engineering. Technical debt spans the entire software engineering lifecycle and its management capitalizes on recent advances made in fields such as source code analysis, quality measurement, and project management. Managing technical debt in the future will be an investment activity applying economics theories, will effectively address the architecture level, will offer specific processes and tools employing data science and analytics to support decision making, and will be an essential part of the software engineering curriculum. Getting ahead of the software quality and innovation curve will inevitably involve establishing technical debt management as a core software engineering practice from theory to its applications.
Subject
technical debt; software management; software economics
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2015-12-03
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI
10.14288/1.0132727
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55020
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of; Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
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