1k citations · 1k across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
5 papers · 1 filter
Faster Code, Deeper Debt? A Multivocal Literature Review on Technical Debt and Its Early Signs in LLM-Assisted Software Development
Ramtin Ehsani, Shriya Rawal, Yuanfang Cai +1
With the rapid adoption of LLM-assisted coding, the need to manage the technical debt these systems introduce has become urgent. In this paper, we conduct a multivocal literature r…
Towards the Assisted Decomposition of Large-Active Files
Jason Lefever, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman +1
Tightly coupled and interdependent systems inhibit productivity by requiring developers to carefully coordinate their changes, even when modifying subsystems that should be indepen…
No Free Lunch: Microservice Practices Reconsidered in Industry
Qilin Xiang, Xin Peng, Chuan He +5
Microservice architecture advocates a number of technologies and practices such as lightweight container, container orchestration, and DevOps, with the promised benefits of faster…
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,…
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…