A balancing act: What software practitioners have to say about technical debt

IEEE Software

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 22-27

  Lim, Erin ^a   Taksande, Nitin ^a   Seaman, Carolyn ^b  

^a Aquatic Informatics ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

maintenance management; software engineering; software maintenance; technical debt

Indexed keywords

GROUND LEVEL; INTERVIEW STUDY; MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; TECHNICAL DEBT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84869179730     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2012.130     Document Type: Review

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