Technical Credit: Industry Views on Benefits and BarriersDistinguished Paper Award
Technical credit has recently been proposed as a concept encompassing system elements and engineering practices that reduce development friction and enable sustainable software evolution. While promising, it remains an emerging idea with limited consensus on its definition and practical implications.
This paper reports an empirical study investigating how practitioners perceive and operationalize technical credit, and what challenges they foresee in its adoption. We conducted an online survey with 31 experienced software professionals, complemented by six semi-structured interviews for deeper insights.
Our findings show the concept strongly resonates with industry practitioners. We highlight concrete scenarios and artifacts where technical credit is seen as impactful, as well as opportunities for embedding it into tools, processes, and architectural decision-making.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Evolution 2SE In Practice (SEIP) / Journal-first Papers at Oceania VIII Chair(s): Timo Kehrer University of Bern | ||
11:00 15mTalk | How do Machine Learning Models Change? Journal-first Papers Joel Castaño Fernández Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Rafael Cabañas Department of Mathematics and CDTIME, University of Almería, Antonio Salmerón Department of Mathematics and CDTIME, University of Almería, David Lo Singapore Management University, Silverio Martínez-Fernández UPC-BarcelonaTech | ||
11:15 15mTalk | A Taxonomy of Contextual Factors in Continuous Integration Processes Journal-first Papers Shujun Huang Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Sebastian Proksch Delft University of Technology | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Understanding the adoption of modern Javascript features: An empirical study on open-source systems Journal-first Papers Walter Lucas Monteiro de Mendonça University of Brasília, Rafael Nunes University of Brasília, Rodrigo Bonifácio Informatics Center - CIn/UFPE and Computer Science Department / University of Brasília, Fausto Carvalho University of Brasília, Ricardo Lima University of Brasília, Michael Silva University of Brasília, Adriano Torres University of Brasília, Paola Accioly Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Eduardo Monteiro University of Brasília, João Saraiva | ||
11:45 15mTalk | Adapting Installation Instructions in Rapidly Evolving Software Ecosystems Journal-first Papers Haoyu Gao The University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Mansooreh Zahedi The Univeristy of Melbourne | ||
12:00 15mTalk | On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices Journal-first Papers Jadson Santos Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Daniel Alencar Da Costa University of Otago, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte | ||
12:15 15mTalk | Technical Credit: Industry Views on Benefits and BarriersDistinguished Paper Award SE In Practice (SEIP) Alessio Bucaioni Mälardalen University, Ian Gorton Northeastern University – Seattle, USA, Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy | ||