Comparing Maintainability Index, SIG Method, and SQALE for Technical Debt Identification

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F20%3A00117521" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/20:00117521 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/2020/2976564/" target="_blank" >https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/2020/2976564/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2976564" target="_blank" >10.1155/2020/2976564</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Comparing Maintainability Index, SIG Method, and SQALE for Technical Debt Identification

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

There are many definitions of software Technical Debt (TD) that were proposed over time. While many techniques to measure TD emerged in recent times, there is still not a clear understanding about how different techniques compare when applied to software projects. The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this aspect, by comparing three techniques about TD identification that were proposed over time: (i) the Maintainability Index (MI), (ii) SIG TD models, and (iii) SQALE analysis. Considering 20 open source Python libraries, we compare the TD measurements time series in terms of trends and evolution according to different sets of releases (major, minor, and micro), to see if the perception of practitioners about TD evolution could be impacted. While all methods report generally growing trends of TD over time, there are different patterns. SQALE reports more periods of steady states compared to MI and SIG TD. MI is the method that reports more repayments of TD compared to the other methods. SIG TD and MI are the models that show more similarity in the way TD evolves, while SQALE and MI are less similar. The implications are that each method gives slightly a different perception about TD evolution.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Comparing Maintainability Index, SIG Method, and SQALE for Technical Debt Identification

Popis výsledku anglicky

There are many definitions of software Technical Debt (TD) that were proposed over time. While many techniques to measure TD emerged in recent times, there is still not a clear understanding about how different techniques compare when applied to software projects. The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this aspect, by comparing three techniques about TD identification that were proposed over time: (i) the Maintainability Index (MI), (ii) SIG TD models, and (iii) SQALE analysis. Considering 20 open source Python libraries, we compare the TD measurements time series in terms of trends and evolution according to different sets of releases (major, minor, and micro), to see if the perception of practitioners about TD evolution could be impacted. While all methods report generally growing trends of TD over time, there are different patterns. SQALE reports more periods of steady states compared to MI and SIG TD. MI is the method that reports more repayments of TD compared to the other methods. SIG TD and MI are the models that show more similarity in the way TD evolves, while SQALE and MI are less similar. The implications are that each method gives slightly a different perception about TD evolution.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF16_019%2F0000822" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000822: Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Scientific programming

ISSN

1058-9244

e-ISSN

1875-919X

Svazek periodika

2020

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

20 Jul 2020

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

1-14

Kód UT WoS článku

000559282100002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85089306504