5 papers
The Dependency Black Hole
Ehsan Zabardast, Bhuwan Paudel, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta
Microservice architectures promise independent evolution through loose coupling, yet large systems often exhibit strong dependency concentration around a small set of services. In…
Reducing Friction in Cloud Migration of Services
Anders Sundelin, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Krzysztof Wnuk
Public cloud services are integral to modern software development, offering scalability and flexibility to organizations. Based on customer requests, a large product development or…
Governing the Commons: Code Ownership and Code-Clones in Large-Scale Software Development
Anders Sundelin, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Richard Torkar +1
Context: In software development organizations employing weak or collective ownership, different teams are allowed and expected to autonomously perform changes in various component…
Exploring the Relationship Between Ownership and Contribution Alignment and Code Technical Debt
Ehsan Zabardast, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Francis Palma +1
Software development organisations aim to stay effective and efficient amid growing system complexity. To address this, they often form small teams focused on separate components t…
Towards Measuring the Impact of Technical Debt on Lead Time: An Industrial Case Study
Bhuwan Paudel, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Ehsan Zabardast +1
Background: Software companies must balance fast value delivery with quality, a trade-off that can introduce technical debt and potentially waste developers' time. As software syst…