Mario Piattini collaborates in an investigation on Technical Debt presented at the TechDebt 2021 conference.

4th edition of the International Conference on Technical Debt

Mario Piattini has collaborated in an investigation carried out by Yania Crespo and Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano from the University of Valladolid on Technical Debt presented at the TechDebt 2021 conference.

It has been presented at the 4th edition of the International Conference on Technical Debt (Tech Debt 2021) held in conjunction with the ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) from May 19 to 21, 2021, the article Carrot and Stick approaches revisited when managing Technical Debt in an educational context that collects the results of training Software Engineering students in technical debt.

The article analyzes the effect of two evaluation strategies in an educational context: one based on penalty and the other on reward. Both are applied to tasks in which students develop a project focused on maintaining a low level of technical debt and obtaining high quality code, using the SonarQube tool. The empirical study to determine which of the strategies works best to help students keep Technical Debt low, determines that (in at least 5 of the 8 metrics analyzed), the reward strategy is shown to work much better.