III:HCC:Small: Measuring and Monitoring Technical Debt

III:HCC:Small：测量和监控技术债务

• 批准号: 0916699
• 负责人: Carolyn Seaman
• 金额: $ 46.45万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0916699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: III; HCC; Small; Measuring; Monitoring

A major obstacle to delivering the increasingly complex software systems that society demands is the resource drain from maintaining existing systems. The high expense of maintenance is related to the tendency of software quality to decline over time. Maintenance is often performed under tight resource constraints, with the minimal amount of effort required. Typically, there is a gap between this minimal amount of work and the amount required to maintain the software's quality. This gap can be viewed as a type of debt, which brings a short-term benefit (usually shorter release time) but which might have to be paid back, with ?interest? (decreased productivity), later. Many practitioners find this metaphor intuitively appealing and it is already transforming the way that long-term software maintenance is viewed. But its lack of a sound theoretical basis, empirically-based models, and practical implementation hinder its ability to transform how maintenance is done. Thus the contribution of this work is to provide empirically based models describing, and validated mechanisms for managing, technical debt. This project also supports the PI's activities in mentoring a diverse population of students, as well as UMBC's nation-wide prominence in the advancement of women and minorities in science and technology.

提供社会要求的日益复杂的软件系统的主要障碍是维护现有系统的资源消耗。维护的高昂费用与软件质量随着时间的推移下降的趋势有关。维护通常是在严格的资源限制下进行的，所需的努力最少。通常，这种最少的工作量与维护软件质量所需的金额之间存在差距。这个差距可以看作是一种债务，它带来了短期收益（通常较短的释放时间），但是可能需要回报哪些债务？ （生产率降低），以后。 许多从业者发现这种隐喻具有直觉上的吸引力，并且已经改变了长期的软件维护方式。但是，它缺乏理论上的理论基础，基于经验的模型和实际实施，阻碍了其改变维护方式的能力。因此，这项工作的贡献是提供基于经验的模型，描述了管理技术债务的机制和验证的机制。该项目还支持PI在指导各种学生中的活动，以及UMBC在科学技术领域的妇女和少数民族发展方面的全国知名度。