Working Agenda - Draft of March 16, 2012

Session 1: Presentations

9:00 – 10:30

Welcome and workshop theme

• Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya, Joost Visser

Industry challenges for the research community

• Bill Curtis, Jay Sappidi and Alexandra Szynkarski, Estimating the Size, Cost, and Types of Technical Debt
• Jelle de Groot, Ariadi Nugroho, Thomas Bäck and Joost Visser, What is the value of your software?
• Jean-Louis Letouzey, The SQALE Method for Evaluating Technical Debt

Eliciting and visualizing debt

• David Morgenthaler, Misha Gridnev, Raluca Sauciuc and Sanjay Bhansali, Searching for Build Debt: Experiences Managing Technical Debt at Google
• John Brondum and Liming Zhu, Visualising Architectural Dependencies

Break

10:30 – 11:00

Session 2: Discussion

11:00 - 12:30

• Discuss presentations from the previous session.
• Short discussion topics, such as: Can we really put a dollar value on technical debt, or is it just a loose metaphor?
• 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

12:30 - 2:00

Session 3: Presentations

2:00 - 3:30

Landscape and other perspectives of technical debt in the software development lifecycle

• Clemente Izurieta, Antonio Vetro, Nico Zazworka, Yuanfang Cai, Carolyn Seaman and Forrest Shull, Organizing the Technical Debt Landscape
• John D. McGregor, J. Yates Monteith and Jie Zhang, Technical Debt Aggregation in Ecosystems
• Neil Ernst, On the Role of Requirements in Understanding and Managing Technical Debt

Research Perspective on Code and Defects

• Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Vincenzo Ferme and Stefano Spinelli, Investigating the Impact of Code Smells Debt on Quality Code Evaluation
• Will Snipes, Yuepu Guo, Carolyn Seaman and Brian Robinson, Defining the Decision Factors for Managing Defects: A Technical Debt Perspective
• Carolyn Seaman, Yuepu Guo, Clemente Izurieta, Yuanfang Cai, Nico Zazworka, Forrest Shull and Antonio Vetro, Using Technical Debt Data in Decision Making: Potential Decision Approaches

Break

3:30 - 4:00

Session 4: Discussion

4:00 – 5:30

• Discuss presentations from the previous session.
• Short discussion topics, such as: Are defects that are visible externally technical debt?
• Formulate research challenge problems.
• Synthesis of workshop presentations and discussion
• Report out from working groups if needed, action items, reflections

Social Event: Workshop Dinner

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