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most citedNaming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice

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cs.SE2022★ 12 cited

An initial Theory to Understand and Manage Requirements Engineering Debt in Practice

Julian Frattini, Davide Fucci, Daniel Mendez +5

Context: Advances in technical debt research demonstrate the benefits of applying the financial debt metaphor to support decision-making in software development activities. Althoug…

cs.SE2021★ 87 cited

Technical debt and agile software development practices and processes: An industry practitioner survey

Johannes Holvitie, Sherlock A. Licorish, Rodrigo O. Spínola +5

Context: Contemporary software development is typically conducted in dynamic, resource-scarce environments that are prone to the accumulation of technical debt. While this general…

cs.SE2021★ 18 cited

Adoption and Suitability of Software Development Methods and Practices

Sherlock A. Licorish, Johannes Holvitie, Sami Hyrynsalmi +5

In seeking to complement consultants' and tool vendors' reports, there has been an increasing academic focus on understanding the adoption and use of software development methods a…

cs.SE2020★ 20 cited

Crowdsmelling: The use of collective knowledge in code smells detection

José Pereira dos Reis, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro

Code smells are seen as major source of technical debt and, as such, should be detected and removed. However, researchers argue that the subjectiveness of the code smells detection…

cs.SE2020★ 58 cited

Code smells detection and visualization: A systematic literature review

José Pereira dos Reis, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro +1

Context: Code smells (CS) tend to compromise software quality and also demand more effort by developers to maintain and evolve the application throughout its life-cycle. They have…

cs.SE2018★ 115 cited

Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys

Stefan Wagner, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michael Felderer +20

Requirements Engineering (RE) has established itself as a software engineering discipline during the past decades. While researchers have been investigating the RE discipline with…