DebtFlag: Technical debt management with a development environment integrated tool

Holvitie, Johannes; Leppänen, Ville

doi:10.1109/mtd.2013.6608674

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“…The approach is being integrated into our DebtFlag tool [20] in order to introduce it as part of daily development activities. This also allows us to introduce interaction capabilities like dynamic highlighting, direct source code access and metrics driven partitioning to reduce edge congestion and increase clarity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Illustrating Software Modifiability -- Capturing Cohesion and Coupling in a Force-Optimized Graph

Holvitie

Leppänen

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

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Software visualization aims to provide a more human-readable interface for the various software system aspects and characteristics. As majority of the time spent on modifying software is spent on gaining an understanding of an intangible and virtual system, the area of software visualization is widely researched as a solution to this. The paper in question presents a program visualization approach that focuses on illustrating the two software modifiability characteristics of cohesion and coupling. Unlike other approaches, which provide a visual representation for precalculated values, it uses the underlying cohesion and coupling mechanics to derive the actual layout. This allows the user to perceive the entire structure that has resulted to the cohesion and coupling values present in viewed nodes. There are three distinct steps to our approach. 1) Semantic analysis is used to record the static program structure into a directed and weighted graph. 2) The graph is then laid out using forceoptimization to highlight important implementation structures. Finally, 3) sub-graph separation and further visual aids are provided to aid the user in observing cohesion and coupling for specific areas. Discussed benefits for this approach include information production efficiency, the ability to quickly analyze even large software implementations and intuitiveness of the visual delivery method.

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“…In our previous work we have introduced a mechanism for capturing notions about technical debt and displaying them at both the software implementation level as well as the project management level [20]. The tool that we have implemented for this mechanism is an Eclipse development environment plug-in called DebtFlag.…”

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Illustrating Software Modifiability -- Capturing Cohesion and Coupling in a Force-Optimized Graph

Holvitie

Leppänen

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

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“…Therefore, the implementation can be also embedded to continuous integration environments. Extending IDEs to integrate further tools to enhance developers is a common practice (see DebtFlag, for instance [23]). The source code of the implementation is published 5 under an open source license.…”

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Annotation-Based Static Analysis for Personal Data Protection

Hjerppe¹,

Ruohonen

Leppänen

2020

Privacy and Identity Management. Data for Better Living: AI and Privacy

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0000−0002−3737−4669] , Jukka Ruohonen 2[0000−0001−5147−3084] , Ville Leppänen 2 kalle.hjerppe@geniem.com, and Abstract. This paper elaborates the use of static source code analysis in the context of data protection. The topic is important for software engineering in order for software developers to improve the protection of personal data during software development. To this end, the paper proposes a design of annotating classes and functions that process personal data. The design serves two primary purposes: on one hand, it provides means for software developers to document their intent; on the other hand, it furnishes tools for automatic detection of potential violations. This dual rationale facilitates compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other emerging data protection and privacy regulations. In addition to a brief review of the state-of-the-art of static analysis in the data protection context and the design of the proposed analysis method, a concrete tool is presented to demonstrate a practical implementation for the Java programming language.

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“…Interest standard deviation, because of the uncertainty of interest Additional cost Holvitie (2013) The amount of extra work the principal can cause to future development…”

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Establishing a Framework for Managing Interest in Technical Debt

Ampatzoglou

Avgeriou

Chatzigeorgiou

2015

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design

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Abstract:Technical debt (TD) has gained significant attention over the past years. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, it has become attractive for both technical and management stakeholders, to acknowledge and discuss issues related to decayed design-time qualities over time, and their corresponding consequences. Until now, despite the inherent relevance of technical debt management to economics, the TD research community has not sufficiently exploited economical methods/models. Therefore, in this paper we present a framework for managing interest in technical debt, founded on top of well-known economic theories (i.e., Loanable Funds and Liquidity Preference Theory) and current TD research. Specifically, in our framework, we will discuss aspects related to technical debt interest, such as: types of TD interest, TD interest characteristics, and a proposed TD interest theory. Finally, in order to boost the amount of empirical studies in TD research, we will propose several tentative research designs that could be used for exploring the notion of interest in technical debt practice.

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DebtFlag: Technical debt management with a development environment integrated tool

Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Illustrating Software Modifiability -- Capturing Cohesion and Coupling in a Force-Optimized Graph

Illustrating Software Modifiability -- Capturing Cohesion and Coupling in a Force-Optimized Graph

Annotation-Based Static Analysis for Personal Data Protection

Establishing a Framework for Managing Interest in Technical Debt

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