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STUDENT : VERUSCA CARIN BARROS ROCHA
DATE: 27/07/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Defesa Virtual
TITLE:

EVOLVING A MAP TO SUPPORT THE MANAGEMENT OF TECHNICAL DEBT RELATED TO SOFTWARE TESTING

KEY WORDS:

Technical debt; Software Testing; Technical debt related to software testing; Technical Debt Management

PAGES: 112
BIG AREA: Ciências Exatas e da Terra
AREA: Ciência da Computação
SUBÁREA: Metodologia e Técnicas da Computação
SPECIALTY: Engenharia de Software
SUMMARY:

Technical Debt (TD) contextualizes a set of tasks that are not performed and are accumulated to be performed later during software development. In software testing, insufficient test coverage, lack of testing, and lack of test case planning are situations in which test debt can be found. In contrast, other types of debt can affect the quality of testing activities. Outdated requirements documentation is an example of a requirements debt situation that can compromise test planning activities. In this scenario, the term test-related debt (TRTD) refers to the problems faced by test professionals due to the presence of TD items. Recently, a conceptual map has been proposed in the technical literature that relates test activities to TD items. This map presents test-related TD causes, indicators and payment practices. However, this map was based on an ad hoc literature review and experimental evidence on its feasibility for use in industry is limited. Despite several works investigating indicators, causes, effects and prevention of TD, there is still a long way to go on how to use this information to support the management of debt items in the context of testing activities. The objective of this work is (i) to present an updated version of a conceptual framework that organizes a set of indicators, causes, effects and preventive practices of TRTD, based on data from the InsighTD project, which is a global questionnaire, which seeks to generate experimental data on TD, its causes, effects and management from software engineering professionals and (ii) to evaluate it for its ease of use, usefulness and possible future use. This evaluation methodology, based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), ran a feasibility study of the maps with 95 participants. As a result of the research, it was observed that the conceptual framework with TD elements can be useful to support the management of TRTD items, as pointed out by 89% of the participants. Most participants also indicated that they would gain productivity, performance, agility and effectiveness using the proposed framework. The framework was also considered easy to learn and use by the study participants.

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