Human Factors that Impact Technical Debt Managementin Software Engineering. A Systematic Literature Review

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Ruiz-Escalante, José-Ángel
Aguilar-Vera, Raul-Antonio
Aguileta-Güemez, Antonio-Armando
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systematic literature review
technical debt
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factores humanos
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human factors
systematic literature review
technical debt
deuda técnica
factores humanos
revisión sistemática de literatura
title_short Human Factors that Impact Technical Debt Managementin Software Engineering. A Systematic Literature Review
title_full Human Factors that Impact Technical Debt Managementin Software Engineering. A Systematic Literature Review
title_fullStr Human Factors that Impact Technical Debt Managementin Software Engineering. A Systematic Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Human Factors that Impact Technical Debt Managementin Software Engineering. A Systematic Literature Review
title_sort Human Factors that Impact Technical Debt Managementin Software Engineering. A Systematic Literature Review
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Aguilar-Vera, Raul-Antonio
Aguileta-Güemez, Antonio-Armando
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Aguilar-Vera, Raul-Antonio
Aguileta-Güemez, Antonio-Armando
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systematic literature review
technical debt
deuda técnica
factores humanos
revisión sistemática de literatura
topic human factors
systematic literature review
technical debt
deuda técnica
factores humanos
revisión sistemática de literatura
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dc.relation.references.eng.fl_str_mv H. Washizaki, Ed., Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK V4.0), Piscataway,Nj/USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2024. https://mpz.knu.edu.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/swebok-v4.pdf
N. Juristo, A. Moreno, S. Vegas, Técnicas de Evaluación de Software, Notebooks. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2006. https://www.grise.upm.es/sites/extras/12/pdf/Documentacion_Evaluacion_7.pdf
R. Malhotra, Empirical Research in Software Engineering: Concepts, Analysis, and Applications. New York, NY: CRC Press, 2016.
W. Cunningham, "The WyCash portfolio management system," in OOPSLA '92: Addendum to the Proceedings on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 1992, pp. 29-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/157710.157715
N. Alves, T. Mendes, M. de Mendonça, R. Spínola, F. Shull, C. Seaman, "Identification and management of technical debt: A systematic mapping study," Information and Software Technology, vol. 70. pp. 100-121, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.10.008
N. Rios, M. G. de Mendonça Neto, R. O. Spínola, "A tertiary study on technical debt: Types, management strategies, research trends, and base information for practitioners," Information and Software Technology, vol. 102. pp. 117-145, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2018.05.010
H. Jeronimo, G. H. Travassos, "Consolidating a common perspective on technical debt and its management through a tertiary study," Information and Software Technology, vol. 149. e106964 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106964
C. Robson, K. McCartan, Real World Research, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
S. McConnell, Managing technical debt, 2008. https://www.construx.com/uploadedfiles/resources/whitepapers/Managing%20Technical%20Debt.pdf
C. Seaman, Y. Guo, "Measuring and monitoring technical debt," in Advances in Computers, vol. 82, pp. 25-46, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385512-1.00002-5
Z. Li, P. Avgeriou, P. Liang, "A systematic mapping study on technical debt and its management," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 101, pp. 193-220, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.12.027
C. Berenguer et al., "Technical debt is not only about code and we need to be aware about it," in SBQS '21: Proceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, Brazil, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3493244.3493285
T. Besker, H. Ghanbari, A. Martini, J. Bosch, "The influence of technical debt on software developer morale," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 167. e110586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2020.110586
R. Verdecchia, P. Kruchten, P. Lago, "Architectural technical debt: A grounded theory," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12292. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_14
R. Alfayez, P. Behnamghader, K. Srisopha, B. Boehm, "An exploratory study on the influence of developers in technical debt," in Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3194164.3194165
J. Á. Ruiz, R. A. Aguilar, J. F. Garcilazo, A. A. Aguileta, "A tertiary study on technical debt management over the last lustrum," International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 181-192, 2024. https://doi.org/10.61467/2007.1558.2024.v15i5.577
B. Kitchenham, S. Charters, Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering, Keele University, 2007. https://legacyfileshare.elsevier.com/promis_misc/525444systematicreviewsguide.pdf
B. A. Kitchenham, D. Budgen, P. Brereton, Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2016.
T. Dybå, T. Dingsøyr, "Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering," in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2008, pp. 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.141403
M. J. Salamea, C. Farré, "Influence of developer factors on code quality: A data study," in IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C), Jeju, South Korea, 2019, pp. 120-125. https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS-C.2019.00035
N. Rios, R. O. Spínola, M. Mendonça, C. Seaman, "The practitioners' point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: A design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results from Brazil," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 3216-3287, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09832-9
F. Fagerholm et al., "Temporal discounting in software engineering: A replication study," in ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, pp. 1-12, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2019.8870161
R. Jain, L. Cao, K. Mohan, B. Ramesh, "Situated boundary spanning: An empirical investigation of requirements engineering practices in product family development," ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, vol. 5 no. 3. pp. 1-29, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2629395
L. Graf-Vlachy, S. Wagner, "The type to take out a loan? A study of developer personality and technical debt," in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), Melbourne, Australia, 2023, pp. 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1109/TechDebt59074.2023.00010
R. Verdecchia, P. Kruchten, P. Lago, I. Malavolta, "Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 176, e110925. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.110925
J. Rubin, M. Rinard, "The challenges of staying together while moving fast: An exploratory study," in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Austin, TX, USA, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2884781.2884871
S. Chattopadhyay, N. Nelson, A. Au, N. Morales, C. Sanchez, R. Pandita, A. Sarma, "Cognitive biases in software development," Communications of the ACM, vol. 65, no. 4. pp. 115-122, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517217
A. Tversky, D. Kahneman, "Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases," Science, vol. 185, no. 4157, pp. 1124-1131, Sep. 1974. https://doi.orrg/10.1126/science.185.4157.1124
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Cunningham, "The WyCash portfolio management system," in OOPSLA '92: Addendum to the Proceedings on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 1992, pp. 29-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/157710.157715N. Alves, T. Mendes, M. de Mendonça, R. Spínola, F. Shull, C. Seaman, "Identification and management of technical debt: A systematic mapping study," Information and Software Technology, vol. 70. pp. 100-121, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.10.008N. Rios, M. G. de Mendonça Neto, R. O. Spínola, "A tertiary study on technical debt: Types, management strategies, research trends, and base information for practitioners," Information and Software Technology, vol. 102. pp. 117-145, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2018.05.010H. Jeronimo, G. H. Travassos, "Consolidating a common perspective on technical debt and its management through a tertiary study," Information and Software Technology, vol. 149. e106964 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106964C. Robson, K. McCartan, Real World Research, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.S. McConnell, Managing technical debt, 2008. https://www.construx.com/uploadedfiles/resources/whitepapers/Managing%20Technical%20Debt.pdfC. Seaman, Y. Guo, "Measuring and monitoring technical debt," in Advances in Computers, vol. 82, pp. 25-46, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385512-1.00002-5Z. Li, P. Avgeriou, P. Liang, "A systematic mapping study on technical debt and its management," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 101, pp. 193-220, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.12.027C. Berenguer et al., "Technical debt is not only about code and we need to be aware about it," in SBQS '21: Proceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, Brazil, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3493244.3493285T. Besker, H. Ghanbari, A. Martini, J. Bosch, "The influence of technical debt on software developer morale," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 167. e110586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2020.110586R. Verdecchia, P. Kruchten, P. Lago, "Architectural technical debt: A grounded theory," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12292. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_14R. Alfayez, P. Behnamghader, K. Srisopha, B. Boehm, "An exploratory study on the influence of developers in technical debt," in Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3194164.3194165J. Á. Ruiz, R. A. Aguilar, J. F. Garcilazo, A. A. Aguileta, "A tertiary study on technical debt management over the last lustrum," International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 181-192, 2024. https://doi.org/10.61467/2007.1558.2024.v15i5.577B. Kitchenham, S. Charters, Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering, Keele University, 2007. https://legacyfileshare.elsevier.com/promis_misc/525444systematicreviewsguide.pdfB. A. Kitchenham, D. Budgen, P. Brereton, Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2016.T. Dybå, T. Dingsøyr, "Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering," in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2008, pp. 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.141403M. J. Salamea, C. Farré, "Influence of developer factors on code quality: A data study," in IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C), Jeju, South Korea, 2019, pp. 120-125. https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS-C.2019.00035N. Rios, R. O. Spínola, M. Mendonça, C. Seaman, "The practitioners' point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: A design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results from Brazil," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 3216-3287, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09832-9F. Fagerholm et al., "Temporal discounting in software engineering: A replication study," in ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, pp. 1-12, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2019.8870161R. Jain, L. Cao, K. Mohan, B. Ramesh, "Situated boundary spanning: An empirical investigation of requirements engineering practices in product family development," ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, vol. 5 no. 3. pp. 1-29, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2629395L. Graf-Vlachy, S. Wagner, "The type to take out a loan? A study of developer personality and technical debt," in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), Melbourne, Australia, 2023, pp. 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1109/TechDebt59074.2023.00010R. Verdecchia, P. Kruchten, P. Lago, I. Malavolta, "Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 176, e110925. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.110925J. Rubin, M. Rinard, "The challenges of staying together while moving fast: An exploratory study," in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Austin, TX, USA, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2884781.2884871S. Chattopadhyay, N. Nelson, A. Au, N. Morales, C. Sanchez, R. Pandita, A. Sarma, "Cognitive biases in software development," Communications of the ACM, vol. 65, no. 4. pp. 115-122, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517217A. Tversky, D. Kahneman, "Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases," Science, vol. 185, no. 4157, pp. 1124-1131, Sep. 1974. https://doi.orrg/10.1126/science.185.4157.1124e2152176e2152135Revista Facultad de Ingenieríahttps://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/ingenieria/article/download/21521/17594Núm. 76 , Año 2026 : April-June 2026 (Continuos Publication)PublicationOREORE.xmltext/xml2750https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/bitstreams/d623f9a1-f97c-4b52-b0e8-dfa5037da57c/download0ba971f163d68191d86383e2d134579eMD51falseAnonymousREAD001/22803oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/228032026-11-04 05:45:14.104https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0metadata.onlyhttps://repositorio.uptc.edu.coRepositorio Institucional UPTCbdigital@metabiblioteca.com

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