Um mapa temático sobre dívida técnica de projeto

Abstract

Technical Debt (TD) describes relationship between short-term returns obtained throw postponing some activity related to software development process, and the long-term consequences of this postponement. Thus TD is a term used to describe situations in which the development team adopts measures that impact the quality of the software in order to meet a momentary need, such as the timely release of the software. This timely release may at first seem cost-effective with respect to the time and productivity gains of development team as it will result in faster software delivery. The concept of TD has attracted interest in the software engineering community and, thereby, several secondary studies have been carried out in the area. These studies are relevant to the area since they are comprehensive, allowing a holistic view on the work that has been undertaken. However, none of them performed the application of thematic synthesis with the objective of investigating the existing results of the area from the execution of experimental studies. In this context, the objective of this research is to apply thematic synthesis to evaluate the evidence from experimental evaluations identified in articles in the TD area with focus on project debt. For this, a systematic review of the literature was performed. The results allowed the mapping and characterization of the primary experimental studies that were carried out in the TD area and the elaboration of a thematic map about technical project debt, which is the type of debt that has been most discussed in the technical literature