PROJECT TITLE :

Assessing technical debt by identifying design flaws in software systems

ABSTRACT :

Tough time-to-market constraints and unanticipated integration or evolution issues lead to design tradeoffs that usually cause flaws in the structure of a software system. So, maintenance prices grow significantly. The impact of these design decisions, which give short-term benefits at the expense of the system’s design integrity, is sometimes referred to as technical debt. During this paper, I propose a novel framework for assessing technical debt employing a technique for detecting style flaws, i.e., specific violations of well-established style principles and rules. To form the framework comprehensive and balanced, it is built on high of a group of metrics-primarily based detection rules for well-known design flaws that cowl all of the main aspects of design like coupling, complexity, and encapsulation. I demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework by assessing the evolution of technical debt symptoms over a total of sixty three releases of two widespread Eclipse® projects. The case study shows how the framework will detect debt symptoms and past refactoring actions. The experiment conjointly reveals that within the absence of such a framework, restructuring actions are not continually coherent and systematic, not even when performed by terribly experienced developers.