Browsing by Autor "Nicolli Rios"

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Hearing the Voice of Software Practitioners on Technical Debt Monitoring: Understanding Monitoring Practices and the Practices' Avoidance Reasons
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2024) Sávio Freire; Nicolli Rios; Boris Pérez; Camilo Castellanos; Darío Correal; Robert Ramač; Vladimir Mandić; Nebojša Taušan; Gustavo López; Alexia Pacheco
Context. Technical debt (TD) monitoring allows software professionals to track the evolution of debt incurred in their projects. The technical literature has listed several practices used in the software industry to monitor indebtedness. However, there is limited evidence on the use and on the reasons to avoid using these practices. Aims. This work aims to investigate, from the point of view of software practitioners, the practices used for monitoring TD items, and the practice avoidance reasons (PARs) curbing the monitoring of TD items. Method. We analyze quantitatively and qualitatively a set of 653 answers collected with a family of industrial surveys distributed in six countries. Results. Practitioners are prone to monitor TD items, revealing 46 practices for monitoring the debt and 35 PARs for explaining TD non-monitoring. Both practices and PARs are strongly associated with planning and management issues. The study also shows the relationship found among practices, PARs and types of debt and presents a conceptual map that relates practices and PARs with their categories. Conclusion. The results of this study add to a practitioners’ capability to monitor TD items by revealing the monitoring practices, PARs and their relationship with different TD types.
Investigating the Relationship between Technical Debt Management and Software Development Issues
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2023) Clara Berenguer; Adriano da Silva Borges; Sávio Freire; Nicolli Rios; Robert Ramač; Nebojša Taušan; Boris Pérez; Camilo Castellanos; Darío Correal; Alexia Pacheco
Context: The presence of technical debt (TD) brings risks to software projects. Managers must continuously find a cost-benefit balance between the benefits of incurring in TD and the costs of its presence in a software project. Much attention has been given to TD related to coding issues, but other types of debt can also have impactful consequences on projects. Aims: This paper seeks to elaborate on the growing need to expand TD research to other areas of software development, by analyzing six elements related to TD management, namely: causes, effects, preventive practices, reasons for non-prevention, repayment practices, and reasons for non-repayment of TD. Method: We survey and analyze, quantitatively and qualitatively, the answers of 653 software industry practitioners on TD to investigate how the previously mentioned elements are related to coding and non-coding issues of the software development process. Results: Coding issues are commonly related to the investigated elements but, indeed, they are only part of the TD Management stage. Issues related to the project planning and management, human factors, knowledge, quality, process, requirements, verification, validation, and test, design, architecture, and the organization are also common sources of TD. We organize the results in a hump diagram and specialize it considering the point of view of practitioners that have used agile, hybrid, and traditional process models in their projects. Conclusion: The hump diagram, in combination with the detailed results, provides guidance on what to expect from the presence of TD and how to react to it considering several issues of software development. The results shed light on TD management of software elements, beyond source code related artifacts.
Pitfalls and Solutions for Technical Debt Management in Agile Software Projects
(IEEE Computer Society, 2021) Sávio Freire; Nicolli Rios; Boris Pérez; Camilo Castellanos; Darío Correal; Robert Ramač; Vladimir Mandić; Nebojša Taušan; Alexia Pacheco; Gustavo López
This article presents technical debt (TD) impediments, decision factors, enabling practices, and actions diagrams for TD management in agile software projects. By analyzing diagrams, professionals can avoid the pitfalls, and increase their capacity, for better TD management.
Software Practitioners' Point of View on Technical Debt Payment (Supporting Material)
(European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2022) Sávio Freire; Nicolli Rios; Boris Pérez; Camilo Castellanos; Darío Correal; Robert Ramač; Vladimir Mandić; Nebojša Taušan; Gustavo López; Alexia Pacheco
The InsighTD data set with answers on technical debt payment.
Software Practitioners' Point of View on Technical Debt Payment (Supporting Material)
(European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2022) Sávio Freire; Nicolli Rios; Boris Pérez; Camilo Castellanos; Darío Correal; Robert Ramač; Vladimir Mandić; Nebojša Taušan; Gustavo López; Alexia Pacheco
The InsighTD data set with answers on technical debt payment.