Session 1: Maintenance and code quality aspects of technical debt

08.30–10.00

Welcome (10 minutes)

Industry challenges for the research community (30 minutes)

• Investigating From Assessment to Reduction: How Cutter Consortium Helps Rein in Millions of Dollars in Technical Debt (Gat—Cutter Consortium, USA; Heintz—Gist Labs, USA)  

Research Perspective on Maintenance and Code Quality (five 10-minute presentations)

• Prioritizing Design Debt Investment Opportunities (Zazworka—Fraunhofer Center, USA; Seaman—University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA; Shull—Fraunhofer Center, USA)
• Investigating the Impact of Design Debt on Software Quality (Zazworka, Shaw, Shull—Fraunhofer Center, USA; Seaman—University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
• Monitoring Code Quality and Development Activity by Software Maps (Bohnet, Doellner—Hass-Plattner-Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany)
• An Extraction Method to Collect Data on Defects and Effort Evolution in a Constantly Modified System (Gomes, Tonin, Cavalcanti, da Silva, Siebra—CIn/Samsung Laboratory of Research and Development – UFPE, Brazil)
• A Cost Model and Tool to Support Quality Economic Trade-off Decisions (Nichols—Software Engineering Institute, USA)

Break

10.00–10.30

Session 2: Breakout sessions and discussion on industry challenges

10:30–12:00

Discuss presentations from the previous session.

Formulate industry problems/challenges in the form of scenarios based on industry experience and limitations of the state of the art.

Revisit expectations, goals for the afternoon if needed.

Lunch

12:00–1:30 (organizers meet to begin synthesizing discussion)

Session 3:  Other forms of technical debt

1:30–3:00

Synthesis of workshop presentations and discussion (20 minutes)

Architecture (30 minutes)

• An Enterprise Perspective on Technical Debt (Klinger, Tarr, Wagstrom, Williams—IBM Watson Research, USA
  

Definitional framework and other forms of technical debt (four 10-minute presentations)

• Quantifying the Value of Architecting within Agile Software Development via Technical Debt Analysis (Brown—Software Engineering Institute, USA; Kruchten—University of British Columbia, Canada; Nord, Ozkaya—Software Engineering Institute, USA)
• Technical Debt from the Stakeholder Perspective (Theodoropoulos, Hofberg, Kern—Acrowire, USA)
• An Empirical Model of Technical Debt and Interest (Nugroho, Visser, Kuipers—Software Improvement Group, Netherlands)
• A Portfolio Approach to Technical Debt Management (Guo, Seaman—University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)

Break

3:00–3:30 

Session 4: Breakout sessions and discussion on research challenges

3:30–5:00

Discuss presentations from the previous session.

Formulate research challenge problems.

Report out from working groups if needed, action items, reflections

Social Event: Workshop Dinner

We plan to have a dinner to facilitate closer links among the participants. Details will be announced as soon as the conference organizers make the arrangements.