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Technical Debt: Beyond Definition to Understanding Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt

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Carolyn Seaman,

Robert L. Nord,

Philippe Kruchten,

Ipek OzkayaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 40, Issue 2

Pages 32 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/2735399.2735419

Published: 03 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

We report here on the Sixth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, collocated with the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2014). The major themes of discussion this year indicate a growing maturity in this area of investigation and the desire to move beyond definitional issues to impact.

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Technical Debt: Beyond Definition to Understanding Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 40, Issue 2

March 2015

125 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/2735399

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