It performs actions to register relevant information about TD, which contributes to increasing the communication on existing TD with all stakeholders and making explicit such debt [...]
"in software-intensive systems, technical debt is a collection of design or implementation constructs that are expedient in the short term but set up a technical context [...]
The management strategy refers to a set of actions, i.e., TDM macro-activities and pragmatical actions (activities and tasks) that must be structured and performed by specific [...]
TD item refers to issues associated with software artifacts and/or technical decisions in which a debt can be observed. Thus, it is a software construct that [...]
"degree of effectiveness and efficiency with which test criteria can be established for a system, product orcomponent and tests can be performed to determine whether those [...]
The term "criteria" refers to "a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal with something" (Cambridge Dictionary). In this sense, TD prioritization criteria refer [...]
A product Backlog refers a "list created containing all the requirements or tasks that are currently known." (Abrahamsson et al., 2002)"the product Backlog list should be [...]
TDM is the systematic performance of actions to prevent, identify, measure, prioritize, repay, document, or monitor TD items (intentional and unintentional). TDM seeks to maintain a [...]
TD impact refers to the effect or influence (positive or negative) of the existing TD items in the software project ecosystem. The most observed positive impacts [...]
It accomplishes actions to observe the TD evolution and management in the software lifecycle. According to the project scenario, the costs, dependency between TD items, and [...]
It refers to the assessment of each known TD item to rank its repayment (prioritize). The definition and use of specific approaches, criteria, and factors are [...]
It supports the TD costs measurement and assessment. In this context, the principal and interest of TD must be estimated. To estimate TD items ' interest, [...]
It supports identifying different TD types that may emerge in the software lifecycle. To this end, specific actions should be performed, such as defining and using [...]
It prevents the occurrence of unintentional TD items and mitigates the risks associated with existing debts. Some actions intend to meet such an objective reference to [...]
In the financial domain, this concept is used to express the probability of interest rates increasing or decreasing, due to the occurrence of some event in [...]
Some TDM technologies may includes advice on some artifacts (TDM artifacts) that can be adopted to support the performing of the TDM actions. Therefore, TDM artifacts [...]
It represent a set of practical actions that should be performed to deal with TD items aiming to minimize the risks related to internal quality software. [...]
Each macro activity comprises a set of TDM Practical Actions that should be performed to deal with TD items aiming to minimize the risks related to [...]
It refers to Macro Activities and Practical Actions (Activities, Tasks, and Recommendations) that can be structured in order to manage TD items in software projects.