Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2019

Abstract

Technical debt is a pervasive problem in software development. Software development teams have to prioritize debt items and determine whether they should address debt or develop new features at any point in time. This paper presents "Tracy", a framework for the prioritization of technical debt using a business-driven approach built on top of business processes. The current stage of the proposed framework is at the beginning of the third phase of Design Science Research, which is usually divided into the phases of exploration, engineering, and evaluation. The exploration and engineering phases involved the participation of 49 professionals from 12 different groups of three companies. The initial evaluation shows that the presented framework is coherent in its structure and that its results contribute to business-driven decision making on technical debt prioritization.

Keywords

business process management, technical debt, technical debt management, technical debt prioritization

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Cleveland, September 30 - October 4

First Page

181

Last Page

185

ISBN

9781728130941

Identifier

10.1109/ICSME.2019.00028

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSME.2019.00028

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