We are excited to announce the first-ever Junior Program Committee (Junior PC) for the Technical Debt Conference 2025 (TechDebt 2025). The Junior PC is an initiative designed to train the next generation of Technical Debt reviewers. A Junior PC provides opportunities for early-career researchers (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, new faculty members, and industry practitioners) who are enthusiastic to get more involved in the academic peer-review process but have not yet served on TechDebt’s technical research track program committee. This opportunity allows future PC members to learn first-hand about the peer-review process, gain experience as reviewers, and learn from senior researchers in the field.
Sun 27 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | KeynoteTechnical Papers at 103 Chair(s): Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Towards an Interpretable Science of Deep Learning for Engineering Quality Software: A Causal Inference View Technical Papers Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | |||
10:30 30mPaper | ACE: Automated Technical Debt Remediation with Validated Large Language Model Refactorings Technical Papers | ||
10:30 30mPaper | Experiences with Technical Debt and its Root Causes in a Merged Industrial Company Technical Papers Magnus Drewsen Jørgensen , Nina Wiborg Mølgaard Mjølner Informatics, Morten Jokumsen Mjølner Informatics, Jens Bæk Jørgensen Mjølner Informatics, Henrik Bærbak Christensen File Attached | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 30mPaper | 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 10mIndustry talk | Perspective-Taking as a Strategy to Manage Technical Debt Industry Track | ||
14:40 10mIndustry 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 10mIndustry talk | Automating Dead Code Cleanup: Challenges Beyond the Code Industry Track Diego Marcilio Uber | ||
15:00 10mIndustry talk | Addressing Technical Debt through Collaboration Industry Track Steven D. Fraser Innoxec | ||
15:10 20mPanel | War Stories in TechDebt Industry Track | ||
Mon 28 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 90mTalk | Leveraging Research to Inform Structural Technical Debt Management Technical Papers | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 30mResearch paper | Most Influential Paper: Detecting and Quantifying Different Types of Self-Admitted Technical Debt Technical Papers | ||
11:30 30mResearch paper | Exploring Fairness Debt Through Evidence from Studies on Algorithmic Discrimination Technical Papers Fardin Aryan University of Calgary, Lucas Valença University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary | ||
12:00 30mResearch paper | Requirements Technical Debt Through the Lens of Environment Assumptions Technical Papers Mounifah Alenazi University of Hafr Al Batin | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 10mTalk | Lighting Talk: Leveraging Context Information for Self-Admitted Technical Debt Detection Technical Papers Miki Yonekura Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Bin Lin Hangzhou Dianzi University, Kenji Fujiwara Nara Women’s University, Hajimu Iida Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:10 20mTalk | Discussion: Reframing Technical Debt - Insights from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop Technical Papers | ||
14:30 50m | Town Hall Technical Papers | ||
15:20 10mDay closing | Awards & Closing & TechDebt 2026 Technical Papers | ||
Call for Participants
We are excited to announce the first-ever Junior Program Committee (Junior PC) for the Technical Debt Conference 2025 (TechDebt 2025). The Junior PC is an initiative designed to train the next generation of Technical Debt reviewers. A Junior PC provides opportunities for early-career researchers (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, new faculty members, and industry practitioners) who are enthusiastic to get more involved in the academic peer-review process but have not yet served on TechDebt’s technical research track program committee. This opportunity allows future PC members to learn first-hand about the peer-review process, gain experience as reviewers, and learn from senior researchers in the field.
All submissions to the TechDebt 2025 research track will be jointly reviewed by regular and Junior PC members. Each paper is expected to receive three reviews from regular PC members and two additional reviews from Junior PC members. Junior PC members will also receive feedback to improve their reviews throughout the process. Junior PC members are reviewers with the same duties and responsibilities as the regular PC members — they must write professional and timely reviews and contribute to the discussion. Based on successful implementations of similar initiatives from other venues (e.g., MSR), we anticipate that the involvement of Junior PC members will enhance the overall quality of reviews.
Requirements
Before the TechDebt submission deadline, all PC members will receive guidance on review quality, confidentiality, ethics standards, and effective participation in discussions. The guidance is aligned with the ACM Peer Review Policy. Thus, Junior PC members must abide by the same rules and restrictions applicable to regular PC members. This includes, but is not limited to, conflict of interests, double-blind reviews, and using in any way results from reviewed papers before such papers have been published.
Junior PC members must commit to writing detailed and rigorous reviews for papers assigned to them by the allotted deadline. Timely review commitment is essential to the Junior PC’s good functioning. Candidates who might be unable to fulfill their reviewing duties should refrain from applying. Junior PC members will be expected to review a load of 2-3 papers per member, submit on-time review submissions, and participate in an online discussion.
How to apply?
Applicants can nominate themselves or others via the following form: https://forms.gle/JV4dsUSspzAgAsh28
Important Dates
- Junior PC Nomination Deadline: Sep 22, 2024 AoE
- Announcement of the Junior PC members: Oct 4, 2024 AoE
For paper submission dates, please check the main track CfP.
Zadia Codabux and Daniel Feitosa
TechDebt 2025 Junior PC Co-chairs
| Fri 4 Oct 2024 Announcement of the Junior PC members |
| Sun 22 Sep 2024 Junior PC Nomination Deadline |
Zadia CodabuxPC Co-Chair
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Daniel FeitosaPC Co-Chair
University of Groningen
Netherlands
Leonard BinamunguJunior PC Member
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Nadeem AbbasJunior PC Member
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Auri VincenziJunior PC Member
Federal University of São Carlos
Brazil
Lanxin YangJunior PC Member
Nanjing University
China
Hina SaeedaJunior PC Member
Chalmers University Sweden
Leonhard ApplisJunior PC Member
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Judith PereraJunior PC Member
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Emmanuel Iko-Ojo SimonJunior PC Member
Australian National University
Australia
Mahi BegougJunior PC Member
Samira SilvaJunior PC Member
Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
Italy
Wenxin JiangJunior PC Member
Purdue University
United States
Noor NashidJunior PC Member
University of British Columbia
Canada
Madhurima ChakrabortyJunior PC Member
University of California, Riverside