TechDebt 2023
Sun 14 - Mon 15 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
co-located with ICSE 2023
Sun 14 May 2023 11:50 - 12:05 at Meeting Room 101 - Self-Admitted Technical Debt

Software and systems traceability is essential for downstream tasks such as data-driven software analysis and intelligent tool development. However, despite the increasing attention to mining and understanding technical debt in software systems, specific tools for supporting the track of technical debts are rarely available. In this work, we propose the first programming language-independent tracking tool for self-admitted technical debt (SATD) – a sub-optimal solution that is explicitly annotated by developers in software systems. Our approach takes a git repository as input and returns a list of SATDs with their evolution actions (created, deleted, updated) at the commit-level. Our approach also returns a line number indicating the latest starting position of the corresponding SATD in the system. Our SATD tracking approach first identifies an initial set of raw SATDs (which only have created and deleted actions) by detecting and tracking SATDs in commits’ hunks, leveraging a state-of-the-art language-independent SATD detection approach. Then it calculates a context-based matching score between pairs of deleted and created raw SATDs in the same commits to identify SATD update actions. The results of our preliminary study on Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant show that our tracking tool can achieve a F1 score of 92.8% and 96.7% respectively.

Sun 14 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:00 - 12:30
Self-Admitted Technical DebtPlenary / Technical Papers / Short Papers at Meeting Room 101
11:00
25m
Research paper
An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Android Apps
Technical Papers
Gregory Wilder II University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Riley Miyamoto University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Samuel Watson University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Anthony Peruma University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Pre-print
11:25
25m
Research paper
Automatically Identifying Relations Between Self-Admitted Technical Debt Across Different Sources
Technical Papers
Yikun Li University of Groningen, Mohamed Soliman University of Groningen, Paris Avgeriou Univ. of Gronningen 
11:50
15m
Short-paper
Automated Self-Admitted Technical Debt Tracking at Commit-Level: A Language-independent Approach
Short Papers
Mohammad Sadegh Sheikhaei School of Computing, Queen's University, Yuan Tian Queens University, Kingston, Canada
Pre-print
12:05
15m
Short-paper
Measuring Improvement of F1-Scores in Detection of Self-Admitted Technical Debt
Short Papers
William Aiken University of Ottawa, Paul K. Mvula University of Ottawa, Paula Branco University of Ottawa, Guy Jourdan University of Ottawa, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Ottawa, Herna Viktor University of Ottawa
Pre-print
12:20
10m
Live Q&A
Open Q&A
Plenary