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In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study
Wolfgang Mauerer, Mitchell Joblin, Damian A. Tamburri +3
We report on a large-scale empirical study investigating the relevance of socio-technical congruence over key basic software quality metrics, namely, bugs and churn. In particular,…
Worst Smells and Their Worst Reasons
Davide Falessi, Rick Kazman
The aims of this paper are: 1) to identify "worst smells", i.e., bad smells that never have a good reason to exist, 2) to determine the frequency, change-proneness, and severity as…
On the Lack of Consensus Among Technical Debt Detection Tools
Jason Lefever, Yuanfang Cai, Humberto Cervantes +2
A vigorous and growing set of technical debt analysis tools have been developed in recent years -- both research tools and industrial products -- such as Structure 101, SonarQube,…
Organisational Structure Patterns in Agile Teams: An Industrial Empirical Study
Damian A. Tamburri, Rick Kazman, Hamed Fahimi
Forming members of an organization into coherent groups or communities is an important issue in any large-scale software engineering endeavour, especially so in agile software deve…
Microservice Transition and its Granularity Problem: A Systematic Mapping Study
Sara Hassan, Rami Bahsoon, Rick Kazman
Microservices have gained wide recognition and acceptance in software industries as an emerging architectural style for autonomic, scalable, and more reliable computing. The transi…
A Longitudinal Study of Identifying and Paying Down Architectural Debt
Maleknaz Nayebi, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman +4
Architectural debt is a form of technical debt that derives from the gap between the architectural design of the system as it "should be" compared to "as it is". We measured archit…