TechDebt 2025
Sun 27 - Mon 28 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025
Sun 27 Apr 2025 15:00 - 15:10 at 103 - Research Papers and Posters Chair(s): Fatemeh Hendijani Fard, Reed Milewicz

Steven Fraser advises on technology transfer, company-university research partnerships, and software best practices. He is based in Silicon Valley and is the Director of Advisory Services at Innoxec. Previously, he held R&D leadership roles at HP, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Nortel focused on company-university research collaborations. Steven holds a PhD from McGill University (Montréal) in Electrical (Software) Engineering and is interested in the strategies used to accelerate the adoption and deployment of new technologies. Steven has delivered keynotes, organized over 75 conferences, panels, workshops and tutorials. He recently co-authored a science oriented biography which is now in its 2nd edition: From the Heart of Europe to the Wonders of Canada: A Story of One Woman’s Century (Gaertner/Fraser).

Sun 27 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Research Papers and PostersIndustry Track / Technical Papers at 103
Chair(s): Fatemeh Hendijani Fard Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Reed Milewicz Sandia National Laboratories
14:00
30m
Paper
The TechDebt Game - Enabling Discussions about Technical Debt
Technical Papers
Marion Wiese University of Hamburg, Germany, Angelina Heinrichs University of Hamburg, Nino Rusieshvilli University of Hamburg, Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida Federal University of Paraiba, Klara Borowa Warsaw University of Technology
DOI Pre-print
14:30
10m
Industry talk
Perspective-Taking as a Strategy to Manage Technical Debt
Industry Track
Kezia Devathasan University of Victoria, Mike Rowling Felix Payment Systems
14:40
10m
Industry talk
A Quantitative Approach to Measuring Technical Debt: The Technical Debt Index (TDI)
Industry Track
Nitin Gupta Assembly Digital and the University of Victoria
14:50
10m
Industry talk
Automating Dead Code Cleanup: Challenges Beyond the Code
Industry Track
15:00
10m
Industry talk
Addressing Technical Debt through Collaboration
Industry Track
15:10
20m
Panel
War Stories in TechDebt
Industry Track
Reed Milewicz Sandia National Laboratories, Fatemeh Hendijani Fard Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
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