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• AGHStochel Marek G.
• Borek Tomasz
• Wawrowski Mariusz R.
• AGHChołda Piotr

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ID BaDAP	149275
Data dodania do BaDAP	2023-11-10
Tekst źródłowy	URL
DOI	10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107333
Rok publikacji	2023
Typ publikacji	artykuł w czasopiśmie
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Czasopismo/seria	Information and Software Technology

Abstract

Context: Despite the increasing research on Technical Debt Management (TDM), there is still a need for empirical studies that take a comprehensive approach to managing Technical Debt (TD) and consider the business perspective. Objectives: We introduce an empirically evaluated methodology called Continuous Debt Valuation Approach (CoDVA), which improves business value, team productivity, and developer morale. Methods: CoDVA prioritizes TD against a predicted product roadmap, quantifying potential benefits based on their impact on the future state of the product and profitability of the investments. This approach enables a relative comparison among TD items and justifies a budget for TD repayment. The methodology was validated through a survey and a three-year-long case study on TDM practices driven by an engineering team responsible for development and maintenance of a telecommunication software. Results: The results of the study show that the CoDVA approach has a positive impact, as the perceived business value from TD refactorings grew by 27%, the engineering team velocity improved by 39%, predictability of the engineering team increased by 60%, the effort spent on product release stabilization decreased by 50%, and overall developer satisfaction increased in 86% of the cases. The majority of the developers found that the applied TDM strategy was beneficial in terms of technical decisions made, the ability to develop a new functionality, and experience while working with the product code. Conclusion: The results prove that the approach is expedient across realized business value, software engineering team productivity, and satisfaction of the engineers responsible for development and maintenance of the software product. © 2023 Elsevier B.V.

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