ATDx: Building an Architectural Technical Debt Index

Roberto Verdecchia; Patricia Lago; Ivano Malavolta; Ipek Ozkaya

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ATDx: Building an Architectural Technical Debt Index

Roberto Verdecchia, Patricia Lago, Ivano Malavolta, Ipek Ozkaya

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Architectural technical debt (ATD) in software-intensive systems refers to the architecture design decisions which work as expedient in the short term, but later negatively impact system evolvability and maintainability. Over the years numerous approaches have been proposed to detect particular types of ATD at a refined level of granularity via source code analysis. Nevertheless, how to gain an encompassing overview of the ATD present in a software-intensive system is still an open question. In this study, we present a multi-step approach designed to build an ATD index (ATDx), which provides insights into a set of ATD dimensions building upon existing architectural rules by leveraging statistical analysis. The ATDx approach can be adopted by researchers and practitioners alike in order to gain a better understanding of the nature of the ATD present in software-intensive systems, and provides a systematic framework to implement concrete instances of ATDx according to specific project and organizational needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ENASE 2020
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
Editors	Raian Ali, Hermann Kaindl, Leszek Maciaszek
Publisher	SciTePress
Pages	531-539
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9789897584213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0009577805310539
Publication status	Published - May 2020
Event	15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 5 May 2020 → 6 May 2020

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Conference	15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	5/05/20 → 6/05/20

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This material is partially based upon work funded and supported by the Department of Defense under Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0002 with Carnegie Mellon University for the operation of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center. DM20-0240.

Funders	Funder number
U.S. Department of Defense	FA8702-15-D-0002
Carnegie Mellon University	DM20-0240

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Software Analytics
Software Architecture
Software Maintenance
Software Metrics
Technical Debt

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Verdecchia, R, Lago, P , Malavolta, I & Ozkaya, I 2020, ATDx: Building an Architectural Technical Debt Index. in R Ali, H Kaindl & L Maciaszek (eds), ENASE 2020: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. SciTePress, pp. 531-539, 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2020, Virtual, Online, 5/05/20. https://doi.org/10.5220/0009577805310539

ATDx: Building an Architectural Technical Debt Index. / Verdecchia, Roberto; Lago, Patricia ; Malavolta, Ivano et al.
ENASE 2020: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ed. / Raian Ali; Hermann Kaindl; Leszek Maciaszek. SciTePress, 2020. p. 531-539.

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