Estimating the size, cost, and types of technical debt

2012 3rd International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, MTD 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-53

  Curtis, Bill ^a   Sappidi, Jay ^b   Szynkarski, Alexandra ^c  

^a CAST   (United States)

^b CAST   (United States)

^c CAST   (France)

Author keywords

benchmarking; software metrics; software structural quality; static analysis; technical debt

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; APPLICATION LAYERS; BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; LINES OF CODE; QUALITY FACTORS; SOFTWARE METRICS; STRUCTURAL QUALITIES; TECHNICAL DEBT;

BENCHMARKING; QUALITY CONTROL;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864120405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MTD.2012.6226000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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