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TagDebt: A Bot to Support Technical Debt Management
João Paulo Biazotto, Daniel Feitosa, Paris Avgeriou +1
Context: Technical debt (TD) is a widely studied metaphor that helps to explain how sub-optimal decisions that can harm software maintainability over time. Although incurring TD is…
Investigating CI/CD-based Technical Debt Management in Open-source Projects
João Paulo Biazotto, Daniel Feitosa, Paris Avgeriou +1
Managing technical debt (TD) is critical to ensure the sustainability of long-term software projects. However, the time and cost involved in technical debt management (TDM) often d…
Automating Technical Debt Management: Insights from Practitioner Discussions in Stack Exchange
João Paulo Biazotto, Daniel Feitosa, Paris Avgeriou +1
Managing technical debt (TD) is essential for maintaining long-term software projects. Nonetheless, the time and cost involved in technical debt management (TDM) are often high, wh…
Leveraging Sustainable Systematic Literature Reviews
Vinicius dos Santos, Rick Kazman, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) are a widely employed research method in software engineering. However, there are several problems with SLRs, including the enormous time and e…
Technical Debt Management Automation: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
João Paulo Biazotto, Daniel Feitosa, Paris Avgeriou +1
Technical Debt (TD) refers to non-optimal decisions made in software projects that may lead to short-term benefits, but potentially harm the system's maintenance in the long-term.…
Evolving Reference Architecture Description: Guidelines based on ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010
Edilson Soares Palma, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, Débora Maria Barroso Paiva +1
The architectural design of software systems is not a trivial task, requiring sometimes large experience and knowledge accumulated for years. Reference architectures have been incr…
Can Existing Approaches Manage Dynamic and Large Business Processes enacted through Systems-of-Systems?
Maria Istela Cagnin, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
In the era of joint ventures (JV) and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), dynamic and large business processes can emerge to achieve broader business goals and are often formed from busi…
Towards a Maturity Model for Systematic Literature Review Process
Vinicius dos Santos, Rick Kazman, Rafael Capilla +1
Systematic literature reviews (SLR) have been increasingly conducted in software engineering and they provide significant benefits in terms of summarizing the state of the research…
Benefits and Drawbacks of a Graduate Course: An Experience Teaching Systematic Literature Review
Anderson Yoshiaki Iwazaki, Vinicius dos Santos, Katia Romero Felizardo +3
Graduate courses can provide specialized knowledge for Ph.D. and Master's students and contribute to develop their hard and soft skills. At the same time, Systematic Literature Rev…
Towards Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews
Vinicius dos Santos, Anderson Yoshiaki Iwazaki, Katia Romero Felizardo +2
Background: The software engineering community has increasingly conducted systematic literature reviews (SLR) as a means to summarize evidence from different studies and bring to l…
Expanding Frontiers: Settling an Understanding of Systems-of-Information Systems
Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto, Bruno Gabriel Araújo Lebtag, Paulo Gabriel Teixeira +16
System-of-Systems (SoS) has consolidated itself as a special type of software-intensive systems. As such, subtypes of SoS have also emerged, such as Cyber-Physical SoS (CPSoS) that…
A Visual Analysis Approach to Update Systematic Reviews
Katia Romero Felizardo, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, Stephen G. MacDonell +1
Context: In order to preserve the value of Systematic Reviews (SRs), they should be frequently updated considering new evidence that has been produced since the completion of the p…
A Systematic Identification of Formal and Semi-formalLanguages and Techniques for Software-intensiveSystems-of-Systems Requirements Modeling
Cristiane Aparecida Lana, Milena Guessi, Pablo Oliveira Antonino +2
Software-intensive Systems-of-Systems (SoS) refer to an arrangement of managerially and operationally independent systems(i.e., constituent systems), which work collaboratively tow…
Establishing a Search String to Detect Secondary Studies in Software Engineering
Bianca Minetto Napoleao, Katia Romero Felizardo, Erica Ferreira de Souza +4
Context: A tertiary study can be performed to identify related reviews on a topic of interest. However, the elaboration of an appropriate and effective search string to detect seco…
Toward Architectural Knowledge Sustainability. New Opportunities to Extend the Longevity of Systems
Rafael Capilla, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, Uwe Zdun +1
Complex software systems must be maintained for years or decades, and the effort and cost to maintain them are often high, involving continuous refactoring to ensure their longevit…