Authors:
Areti Ampatzoglou
1
;
Apostolos Ampatzoglou
1
;
Paris Avgeriou
2
and
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou
3
Affiliations:
1
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, Netherlands
;
2
University of Groningen, Netherlands
;
3
University of Macedonia, Greece
Keyword(s):
Technical debt, Architecture, Software quality, Iinterest.
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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