Academic Journal
Wait for it: identifying 'On-Hold' self-admitted technical debt
| العنوان: | Wait for it: identifying 'On-Hold' self-admitted technical debt |
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| المؤلفون: | Maipradit, R, Treude, C, Hata, H, Matsumoto, K |
| بيانات النشر: | SPRINGER |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | The University of Melbourne: Digital Repository |
| الوصف: | Self-admitted technical debt refers to situations where a software developer knows that their current implementation is not optimal and indicates this using a source code comment. In this work, we hypothesize that it is possible to develop automated techniques to understand a subset of these comments in more detail, and to propose tool support that can help developers manage self-admitted technical debt more effectively. Based on a qualitative study of 333 comments indicating self-admitted technical debt, we first identify one particular class of debt amenable to automated management: on-hold self-admitted technical debt (on-hold SATD), i.e., debt which contains a condition to indicate that a developer is waiting for a certain event or an updated functionality having been implemented elsewhere. We then design and evaluate an automated classifier which can identify these on-hold instances with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.98 as well as detect the specific conditions that developers are waiting for. Our work presents a first step towards automated tool support that is able to indicate when certain instances of self-admitted technical debt are ready to be addressed. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1382-3256 1573-7616 |
| Relation: | Maipradit, R., Treude, C., Hata, H. & Matsumoto, K. (2020). Wait for it: identifying "On-Hold" self-admitted technical debt. EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 25 (5), pp.3770-3798. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09854-3.; http://hdl.handle.net/11343/290130 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/11343/290130 |
| Rights: | CC BY ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.499F5CCC |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 13823256 15737616 |
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