Shedding Light on How Intelligent Techniques can Support Technical Debt Management and Influence Software Quality Attributes
Resumo
Technical Debt (TD) is a consequence of decision-making in the development process that can negatively impact Software Quality Attributes (SQA) in the long term. Technical Debt Management (TDM) is a complex task to minimize TD that relies on a decision process based on multiple and heterogeneous data that are not straightforward to synthesize. Recent studies show that Intelligent Techniques can be a promising opportunity to support TDM activities since they explore data for knowledge discovery, reasoning, learning, or supporting decision-making. Although these techniques can improve TDM activities, there is a need to identify and analyze solutions based on Intelligent Techniques to support TDM activities and their impact on SQA. For doing so, a Systematic Mapping Study was performed, covering publications between 2010 and 2020. From 2276 extracted studies, we selected 111 unique studies. We found a positive trend in applying Intelligent Techniques to support TDM activities being Machine Learning and Reasoning Under Uncertainty the most recurrent ones. Design and Code were the most frequently investigated TD types. TDM activities supported by intelligent techniques impact different characteristics of SQA, mainly Maintainability, Reliability, and Security. Although the research area is up-and-coming, it is still in its infancy, and this study provides a baseline for future research.
Palavras-chave:
Technical Debt, Intelligent Techniques, Systematic Mapping Study, Software Quality Attributes
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A. Ampatzoglou, A. Ampatzoglou, A. Chatzigeorgiou, and P. Avgeriou. The financial aspect of managing technical debt: A systematic literature review. Information and Software Technology, 64:52-73, 2015.
Anonymous. Supplementary Material - SMS on IF for TDM. Dataset. Online available. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12367277.v3 5. 2020.
P. Avgeriou, P. Kruchten, I. Ozkaya, and C. Seaman. Managing technical debt in software engineering (dagstuhl seminar 16162). In Dagstuhl Reports, volume 6. Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2016.
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W. Cunningham. The wycash portfolio management system. ACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger, 4(2):29-30, 1992.
S. Fabbri, C. Silva, E. Hernandes, F. Octaviano, A. Di Thommazo, and A. Belgamo. Improvements in the start tool to better support the systematic review process. In In Proc. of the 20th Int'l Conf. on Evaluation and Assessment in Soft. Eng., pages 1-5, 2016.
M. Falco and G. Robiolo. Building a catalogue of iso/iec 25010 quality measures applied in an industrial context. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, volume 1828, page 012077. IOP Publishing, 2021.
R. Feldt, F. G. de Oliveira Neto, and R. Torkar.Ways of applying artificial intelligence in software engineering. In 2018 IEEE/ACM 6th Int'lWorkshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Soft. Eng (RAISE), pages 35-41. IEEE, 2018.
I. O. for Standardization, S. Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology. Subcommittee SC 7, and systems engineering. Systems and Software Engineering: Systems and Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE): System and Software Quality Models. ISO, 2011.
A. Kaur. A systematic literature review on empirical analysis of the relationship between code smells and software quality attributes. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 27(4):1267-1296, 2020.
B. Kitchenham and P. Brereton. A systematic review of systematic review process research in software engineering. Information and Software Technology, 55(12):2049-2075, 2013.
P. Kumar and S. Singh. An emerging approach to intelligent techniques-soft computing and its application. In Internet of Things and Big Data Applications, pages 171-182. Springer, 2020.
Z. Li, P. Avgeriou, and P. Liang. A systematic mapping study on technical debt and its management. Journal of Systems and Software, 101:193-220, 2015.
M. Perkusich, L. C. e Silva, A. Costa, F. Ramos, R. Saraiva, A. Freire, E. Dilorenzo, E. Dantas, D. Santos, K. Gorgônio, et al. Intelligent software engineering in the context of agile software development: A systematic literature review. Information and Software Technology, 119:106241, 2020.
K. Petersen, R. Feldt, S. Mujtaba, and M. Mattsson. Systematic mapping studies in software engineering. In 12th Int'l Conf. on Evaluation and Assessment in Soft. Eng. (EASE) 12, pages 1-10, 2008.
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V. M. Silva, H. J. Junior, and G. H. Travassos. A taste of the software industry perception of technical debt and its management in brazil. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, 7:1-1, 2019.
B. W. Sorte, P. P. Joshi, and V. Jagtap. Use of artificial intelligence in software development life cycle: a state of the art review. Int'l Journal of Advanced Eng. and Global Technology, pages 398-403, 2015.
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C. Wohlin, P. Runeson, M. Höst, M. C. Ohlsson, B. Regnell, and A. Wesslén. Experimentation in software engineering. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
Publicado
04/10/2022
Como Citar
ALBUQUERQUE, Danyllo; CHAGAS, Ferdinandy; GUIMARAES, Everton; TONIN, Graziela; PERKUSICH, Mirko; ALMEIDA, Hyggo; PERKUSICH, Angelo.
Shedding Light on How Intelligent Techniques can Support Technical Debt Management and Influence Software Quality Attributes. In: WORKSHOP BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE INTELIGENTE (ISE), 2. , 2022, Evento Online.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2022
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p. 13-18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ise.2022.227051.
