The popularity of Technical Debt is increasing rapidly. Many tools are available on the market and they propose a set of coding rules, which represent something wrong in the code that will soon be reflected in a fault or will increase maintenance effort. However, while the management of some companies is encouraging developers not to violate these rules in the first place and to produce code below a certain technical debt threshold, developers are skeptical of their importance.
In this seminar, she presented her research interests, and latest publications introducing the state of the art on Technical Debt through recent and relevant research works. Moreover, she presented a novel automated approach to classify the severity of Technical Debt and prioritize refactoring activities.