6 citations · 6 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.SE2022
Industry Experiences with Large-Scale Refactoring
James Ivers, Robert L. Nord, Ipek Ozkaya +3
Software refactoring plays an important role in software engineering. Developers often turn to refactoring when they want to restructure software to improve its quality without cha…
cs.SE2022
Detecting Discussions of Technical Debt
Ipek Ozkaya, Zachary Kurtz, Robert L. Nord +2
Technical debt (TD) refers to suboptimal choices during software development that achieve short-term goals at the expense of long-term quality. Although developers often informally…
cs.SE2017★ 6 cited
What to Fix? Distinguishing between design and non-design rules in automated tools
Neil A. Ernst, Stephany Bellomo, Ipek Ozkaya +1
Technical debt---design shortcuts taken to optimize for delivery speed---is a critical part of long-term software costs. Consequently, automatically detecting technical debt is a h…