International Conference on Technical Debt 2024

Welcome to the website of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt 2024.

The TechDebt conference series is the premier event to bring together leading software engineering researchers, practitioners, educators, and tool developers to discuss approaches for managing various types of Technical Debt (TD), to share experiences and best practices, and to identify key challenges for industry and academia.

TechDebt 2024 will be the 7th International Conference on Technical Debt and will be held in April 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. As in previous editions, TechDebt will be co-located with the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024).

Awards 2024

• Most Influential Paper Award: Ariadi Nugroho, Joost Visser, Tobias Kuiper: An Empirical Model of Technical Debt and Interest (published at the Workshop on Managing Technical Debt - MTD ’11 at ICSE 2011)

• Best Paper Award: Markus Borg, Ilyana Pruvost, Enys Mones, Adam Tornhill: Increasing, not Diminishing: Investigating the Returns of Highly Maintainable Code

• Best Reviewer Awards: Christoph Treude, Marion Wiese, Francesca Arcelli Fontana

• Best Presentation Awards: Sergio Moreschini, Dirk Kröhan

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