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Welcome to the Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, collocated with the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2017) in Cologne. The technical debt research community continues to expand through ...

In this paper, we look how changes and challenges in technical debt and its management that could emerge from the ongoing digital transformation. The digital transformation ensues from companies' opportunities to join various digital ecosystems and use ...

Because numerous code smells are revealed by code smell detectors, many attempts have been undertaken to mitigate related problems by prioritizing and filtering code smells. We earlier proposed a technique to prioritize code smells by leveraging the ...

Technical debt (TD) impedes software projects by reducing the velocity of development teams during software evolution. Although TD is usually assessed on either the entire system or on individual software artifacts, it is the actual craftsmanship of ...

An important parameter in deciding to eliminate technical debt (TD) is the probability of a module to generate interest along software evolution. In this study, we explore code smells, which according to practitioners are the most commonly occurring ...

Technical Debt is a recent concept, borrowed from the financial domain. It has been recently used in software development to describe technical sub-optimal solutions that have short-term benefits but long-term extra-costs. However, no body of literature ...

The interest of Technical Debt is difficult to assess. The negative effects (severity) of Technical Debt might depend on the context of the organization and the estimations might be subjective. There is a need for assessing Technical Debt interest in a ...

Managing technical debt includes the detection and assessment of debt at the code and design levels (such as bad smells). Existing approaches and tools for smell detection primarily use static program data for decision support. While a static analysis ...

The interest of Technical Debt (TD) is difficult to calculate, especially on a project level. Current approaches are based on fine-grain issue assessment, but there is no evidence about how TD is assessed on a project level. A few tools use an ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) bears great potential for innovation in modern companies. Agility and speed both matter when innovating in such a context. The first Inno4IoT workshop focuses on how to properly achieve and balance the two aspects while ...

The rapid growth of Internet-of-things (IoT) software applications has driven both practitioners and researchers' attention to methodological approaches for secure IoT development. Security issues for IoT is special in the way that they include not only ...

A smart city is a connected system in which things produce a huge quantity of data. We focused the attention on monitoring the environment quality in urban area by means of a distributed network of small mobile sensors that are devices on the Internet ...

This paper presents an analysis, as a case study, of the development of the "Bluetooth terminal" application, a tool to monitor Bluetooth devices. The objective is to get further insight on how to use pivots to get a product closer to its users, and on ...

Large software development projects and programs are increasingly adopting agile development practices. Frameworks for managing large agile development projects is gaining popularity, such as the Scaled Agile Framework and Large Scale Scrum. New ...

Inter-team coordination has been recognized as one of the most important challenges in large-scale agile development settings. Except specific practices, such as Scrum of Scrums meetings, certain roles are often reported to be responsible for areas of ...

Coordination is an important but challenging success factor in large-scale software development. Large-scale is particularly demanding because it involves several teams, and therefore we chose to study coordination between teams. Our aim of this case ...

The public sector is facing a massive digitalization process in order to provide faster and more automated services to the public. Several new projects in this sector are developing software using agile methodologies. There is, however, a lack of ...

How do you make the agile organization? This paper gives an answer in form of a case story from the financial software company SimCorp. In late 2015SimCorp decided to go agile on a big scale. To do so they applied the scalable agile framework SAFe. In ...

Many organizations are going through large-scale agile transformations but they face challenges with measuring when the transformation has reached its goals or communicating what kinds of results they are expecting. Based on our experiences we developed ...

Agile development of safety-critical software has evolved from an early conceptual idea to, presently, an approach that is gaining uptake in the industry. As we now get more and more experience we also discover new challenges and related ideas that ...

This short paper reports from a case study of the agile development of safety-critical software. It utilizes a framework of dynamic relationships between agile practices with the purpose of demonstrating the utility of the framework to understand a case ...

Context: There has been an increasing use of agile techniques for safety-critical systems. Agile techniques embrace fast changing requirements, continuously delivered products and frequent communication with lightweight documentation. Motivation: ...

In the last years, cloud-native architectures have emerged as a target platform for the deployment of microservice architectures. The migration of existing monoliths into cloud-native applications is still in the early phase, and only few companies ...

At present, agile development is a dominating development process in software engineering. Yet, due to different contexts, also agile methods require adaptations (e.g. Scrum-but). Since adaptation means adding, modifying or dropping some agile elements, ...