Technical debt: From metaphor to theory and practice

IEEE Software

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 18-21

  Kruchten, Philippe ^a   Nord, Robert L ^b   Ozkaya, Ipek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Software Engineering Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

evolvability; maintainability; refactoring; software quality; technical debt

Indexed keywords

EVOLVABILITY; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TECHNICAL DEBT; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 84869187703     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2012.167     Document Type: Review

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