Sun 12 AprDisplayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
08:00 - 17:30 | Sunday RegistrationICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms at Main Entrance Registration for ICSE 2026. | ||
08:00 9h30mRegistration | ICSE 2026 Registration ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms | ||
09:00 - 10:30 | Gilberto GilTechDebt Program / Technical Papers at Oceania VII Chair(s): Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University | ||
09:00 5mDay opening | Welcome to TechDebt 2026 TechDebt Program A: Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University, A: Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County, A: Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama | ||
09:05 65mKeynote | AI and Technical Debt: Friend or Foe? TechDebt Program | ||
10:10 20mTalk | Investigating Technical Debt Types, Issues, and Solutions in Serverless Computing Technical Papers Hasini Sumalee Perera University of Saskatchewan, Zadia Codabux University of Saskatchewan, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno File Attached | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Sunday Morning BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | Sunday LunchICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Lunch time with a variety of meal options available for attendees, including vegetarian choices. This session will provide an opportunity for attendees to enjoy a meal while networking with colleagues and discussing the day’s events. | ||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch ICSE Catering | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | DjavanTechDebt Program / Technical Papers at Oceania VII Chair(s): Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County | ||
14:00 70mKeynote | Three Flavors of Technical Debt in Practice TechDebt Program | ||
15:10 20mTalk | Beyond Production Code: A Pull Request–Based Study of Technical Debt in Test Code Technical Papers José Rocha do Amaral Neto Federal University of Campina Grande, Everton L. G. Alves Federal University of Campina Grande, Eliane C. Araújo Federal University of Campina Grande | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Sunday Afternoon BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Afternoon Break with a variety of beverages and snacks available for attendees. This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
15:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Maria BetaniaJournal First / Industry Track / Technical Papers at Oceania VII Chair(s): Klara Borowa Warsaw University of Technology | ||
16:00 20mIndustry talk | Collaborative Technical Debt Management in Open Source CAE Software Industry Track | ||
16:20 20mIndustry talk | Managing Technical Debt at Scale: A Strategic Approach from Latin America’s Largest Bank Industry Track | ||
16:40 10mOther | Agile Social Software Engineer: An Empirical Approach to Mitigate and Manage Social Debts in Agile Environments. Journal First A: Mohammed Alshammari University of Birmingham, A: Carlos Mera-Gómez ESPOL Polythecnic University, A: Rami Bahsoon University of Birmingham, A: Wendy Yánez-Pazmino University of Birmingham | ||
16:50 25mAwards | Awards: MIP, Best Paper, Distinguished Reviewers Technical Papers | ||
Mon 13 AprDisplayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
08:00 - 17:30 | Monday RegistrationICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms at Main Entrance Registration for ICSE 2026. | ||
08:00 9h30mRegistration | ICSE 2026 Registration ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms | ||
09:00 - 10:30 | Caetano VelosoTechDebt Program / Technical Papers at Oceania VII Chair(s): Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University | ||
09:00 70mKeynote | From Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt TechDebt Program File Attached | ||
10:10 20mAwards | MIP Talk - The Perception of Technical Debt in the Embedded Systems Domain: An Industrial Case Study TechDebt Program A: Apostolos Ampatzoglou University of Macedonia, A: Alexander Chatzigeorgiou University of Macedonia, A: Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands, A: Antonio Martini University of Oslo, Norway, A: Uwe Zdun University of Vienna, A: Pekka Abrahamsson Tampere University, A: Kari Systa Tampere University | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Monday Morning BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | Monday LunchICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Lunch time with a variety of meal options available for attendees, including vegetarian choices. This session will provide an opportunity for attendees to enjoy a meal while networking with colleagues and discussing the day’s events. | ||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch ICSE Catering | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | LenineTechnical Papers / TechDebt Program at Oceania VII Chair(s): Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama | ||
14:00 70mKeynote | From Whispers to Strategy: the Benefits of Visualizing Technical Debt Management TechDebt Program | ||
15:10 20mTalk | The Effects of Early Socio-Technical Decisions on UXDebt Technical Papers Andres Rodriguez LIFIA, UNLP, Julian Grigera Centro LIFIA, UNLP, CONICET, CICPBA, Juan Cruz Gardey LIFIA Fac. de Informática, UNLP, Luis Farfallini Fac.Psicología, UBA, Gustavo Rossi Universidad Nacional de La Plata, LIFIA-Fac. Informatica, La Plata, Argentina, Alejandra Garrido LIFIA, University of La Plata & CONICET, Argentina | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Monday Afternoon BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Afternoon Break with a variety of beverages and snacks available for attendees. This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
15:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Gal CostaTechnical Papers / TechDebt Program / Journal First / Industry Track at Oceania VII Chair(s): Roberto Verdecchia University of Florence | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Reframing Technical Debt TechDebt Program | ||
16:20 20mTalk | MANA-RTD: A Structured Process for Managing Requirements Technical Debt in Real Projects Technical Papers Rhenara Alves Oliveira Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Anna Beatriz Marques Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, Amanda Sousa Federal University of Ceara (UFC), José Antônio Macêdo Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Rossana Andrade Federal University of Ceará | ||
16:40 10mTalk | Technical Lag as Latent Technical Debt: A Rapid Review Technical Papers | ||
16:50 10mOther | Process Smells in Practice: An Evaluative Case Study Journal First A: Eray Tüzün Bilkent University, A: Erdem Tuna Bilkent University, A: Emre Sülün Bilkent University | ||
17:00 20mIndustry talk | LLMs-Assisted Context-Aware Static Analysis for Security Debt Detection Industry Track | ||
17:20 10mDay closing | Closing and TechDebt 2027 TechDebt Program A: Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University, A: Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County, A: Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama | ||
20:00 - 23:00 | Social Event for Co-located ConferencesICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms at Rio Scenarium Co-located event participants are invited to join us at Rio Scenarium for an informal evening with live Brazilian music, food, drinks, and great company in the heart of Lapa, a traditional samba region in Rio. Buses depart from the conference venue starting at 18:00. | ||
20:00 3hDinner | Social Event for Co-located Conferences ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms | ||
Accepted Industry Talks
Call for Contributions
The International Conference on Technical Debt is the premier venue for researchers and practitioners to discuss approaches for managing various types of Technical Debt, to share experiences and best practices. TechDebt’s Industry Track fosters a deep exchange between academia, industry and non-commercial organizations by inviting practitioners to share their experiences with other practitioners and the research community. Hence, the track strongly focuses on real-word experiences made by practitioners. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Problems caused by Technical Debt.
- Approaches that helped to deal with Technical Debt.
- Approaches that failed at dealing with Technical Debt.
- Experiences with tools that help to deal with Technical Debt.
Specific examples include:
- The relationship between quality assurance activities and Technical Debt management
- Use of artificial intelligence approaches to support Technical Debt Management
- Social and team factors on Technical Debt
- Interplay between Software Economics and Technical Debt
- How Technical Debt is identified, tracked, and monitored
- What (un)successful debt management looks like
- How the “principal” and “interest” of Technical Debt is or should be measured
- Stakeholders’ concerns on Technical Debt (e.g., convincing stakeholders to support taking action on technical debt)
- Data on what works to pay down and effectively manage Technical Debt
- How debt items should be prioritized vs other concerns (like developing new features)
- Less studied kinds of Technical Debt: e.g., Requirement, Test, Documentation, Infrastructure, Security Debt
- Technical Debt in the context of other topics (e.g., DevOps, Machine Learning, etc.)
We encourage the submission of reports of both successes and failures as these are of high value for practitioners and researchers. For questions or comments, please reach out to Justine Gehring (Gologic, justine.gehring@gologic.ca) and Dr. Rodrigo Spinola (Virginia Commonwealth University, spinolaro@vcu.edu).
Talk Submissions
Please submit an abstract of your presentation describing what you plan to talk about. Presenters are expected to attend in-person to give their talk and to benefit from discussions with other industry and academic participants.
Presentation time will depend on the number of accepted submissions but is expected to be 20 minutes.
How to submit: Please use this Google form to submit your contribution.
The track chairs will review the abstracts based on the relevance of the presentation topic to the conference and the potential for the presentation to stimulate discussion and debate and/or to generate new and innovative ideas.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline for talks: January 08, 2026
- Notification for talks: January 22, 2026
- Conference: April 12-13, 2026
Why Submit to Industry Track at TechDebt?
- Connect with fellow practitioners who face the challenges of Technical Debt in their daily work.
- Exchange ideas with leading researchers who are presenting innovative solutions and fresh approaches to managing Technical Debt.
| Thu 22 Jan 2026 Notification for talks |
| Thu 8 Jan 2026 Submission deadline for talks |
