TechDebt 2024
Sun 14 - Mon 15 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
co-located with ICSE 2024
Sun 14 Apr 2024 12:15 - 12:25 at Vianna da Motta - Technical papers Chair(s): Vladimir Mandić

Background: The “Technical Debt Dataset” (TDD) is a comprehensive dataset on technical debt (TD) in the main branches of more than 30 Java projects. However, some TD items produced by SonarQube are not included for many commits, for instance because the commits failed to compile. This has limited previous studies using the dataset. Aims and Method: In this paper, we provide an addition to the dataset that includes an analysis of 278,320 commits of all branches in a superset of 37 projects using Teamscale. We then demonstrate the utility of the dataset by exploring the relationship between developer personality by replicating a prior study. Results: The new dataset allows us to use a larger sample than prior work could, and we analyze the personality of 111 developers and 5,497 of their commits. The relationships we find between developer personality and the introduction and removal of TD differ from those found in prior work. Conclusions: We offer a dataset that may enable future studies into the topic of TD and we provide additional insights on how developer personality relates to TD.

Sun 14 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Technical papersIndustry track / Technical papers at Vianna da Motta
Chair(s): Vladimir Mandić Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
11:00
20m
Research paper
What you See is What you Get: Exploring the Relation between Code Aesthetics and TD Interest
Technical papers
Theodoros Maikantis University of Macedonia, Iliana Natsiou University of Macedonia, Apostolos Ampatzoglou University of Macedonia, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou University of Macedonia, Stelios Xinogalos , Nikolaos Mittas International Hellenic University
11:20
5m
Live Q&A
Q&A
Technical papers

11:25
20m
Research paper
Exploring Process Debt in Large-Scale Agile Software Development For Secure Telecom Solutions
Technical papers
Hina Saeeda , Muhammad Ovais Ahmad Karlstad University, Tomas Gustavsson Karlstad University
11:45
5m
Live Q&A
Q&A
Industry track

11:50
20m
Research paper
Increasing, not Diminishing: Investigating the Returns of Highly Maintainable Code
Technical papers
Markus Borg CodeScene, Ilyana Pruvost , Enys Mones CodeScene, Adam Tornhill Codescene AB
Pre-print
12:10
5m
Live Q&A
Q&A
Industry track

12:15
10m
Research paper
Different Debt: An Addition to the Technical Debt Dataset and a Demonstration Using Developer Personality
Technical papers
Lorenz Graf-Vlachy University of Stuttgart, Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich
Pre-print
12:25
5m
Live Q&A
Q&A
Technical papers