Publications

JSS

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, “The use of incentives to promote Technical Debt management”, ”In revised submission to Journal of Systems and Software”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01487, 2021.

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2021

JSS

V. Lenarduzzi, T. Besker, D. Taibi, A. Martini, and F. Francesca Arcelli, "Technical Debt Prioritization: State of the Art. A Systematic Literature Review", Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 171, pp. 110827, 2021.

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ESE

J. Olsson, E. Risfelt, T. Besker, A. Martini, R. Torkar, “Measuring affective states from technical debt: A psychoempirical software engineering experiment”, In print at Empirical Software Engineering Journal”, 2021.

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JSS

T. Besker, H. Ghanbari, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "The Influence of Technical Debt on Software Developer Morale," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 167, pp. 110586, 2020.

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2020

IEEE

P. Avgeriou, D. Taibi, A. Ampatzoglou, F. A. Fontana, T. Besker, A. Chatzigeorgiou, V. Lenarduzzi, A. Martini, N. Moschou, I. Pigazzini, N. Saarimäki, D. Sas, S. Soares de Toledo, A. Tsintzira, "An Overview and Comparison of Technical Debt Measurement Tools," IEEE Software Journal, 2020

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TechDebt

T. Besker, , A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Carrot and Stick approaches when managing Technical Debt," Accepted for publication at the Third International Conference on Technical Debt, co-located with ICSE, 2020. Rewarded Best paper Reward

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APSEC

A. Martini,T. Besker, and J. Bosch, "Process Debt: a First Exploration”, Proceedings in the 26th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Singapore, 2020.

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P.h.D

T. Besker, "Technical Debt: An empirical investigation of its harmfulness and on management strategies in industry," Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Chalmers University of Technology, 2020.

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JSS

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Software developer productivity loss due to technical debt—A replication and extension study examining developers' development work," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 156, pp. 41-61, 2019.

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2019

SEAA

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "How Regulations of Safety-Critical Software Affect Technical Debt," 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), pp. 74-81, 2019.

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TechDebt

T. Besker, , A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Technical debt triage in backlog management," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technical Debt, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2019, pp. 13-22, 2019.

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JSS

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Managing architectural technical debt: A unified model and systematic literature review," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 135, pp. 1-16, 2018.

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2018

ICSME

T. Besker, A. Martini, R. E. Lokuge, K. Blincoe, and J. Bosch, "Embracing Technical Debt, from a Startup Company Perspective," IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pp. 415-425, 23-29 Sept, 2018.

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TechDebt

T. Besker, , A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Technical Debt Cripples Software Developer Productivity - A longitudinal study on developers' daily software development work," Proceedings in First International Conference on Technical Debt @ ICSE18, 2018.

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Lic.

T. Besker, "An empirical investigation of the Harmfulness of Architectural Technical Debt," Thesis for the Degree of Licentiate of Engineering, Chalmers, 2018.

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SCP

A. Martini, T. Besker, and J. Bosch, "Technical Debt Tracking: Current State of Practice - A Survey and Multiple Case-Study in 15 large organizations", Science of Computer Programming, 2017.

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2017

CibSE

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch,T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Time to Pay Up - Technical Debt from a Software Quality Perspective," In proceedings of the 20th Ibero American Conference on Software Engineering (CibSE) @ ICSE17, 2017.

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SEAA

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Impact of Architectural Technical Debt on Daily Software Development Work - A Survey of Software Practitioners," Proceedings in 43th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Vienna, 2017, pp. 278-287.

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APSEC

A. Martini, T. Besker, and J. Bosch, "The introduction of Technical Debt Tracking in Large Companies," Proceedings in the 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Hamilton, New Zealand, 2017.

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ESEM

H. Ghanbari, T. Besker, , A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "Looking for Peace of Mind? Manage your (Technical) Debt - An Exploratory Field Study", Proceedings in the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Toronto, Canada, 2017.

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XP2017

T. Besker, A. Martini, J. Bosch, and M. Tichy, "An investigation of technical debt in automatic production systems," Proceedings of the XP2017 Scientific Workshops, Cologne, Germany, 2017.

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SEAA

T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch, "A Systematic Literature Review and a Unified Model of ATD." Proceedings in 42th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Cyprus, 2016, pp. 189-197.

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2016

ECIME

T. Besker, R. Olsson, and K. Pessi, "The Enterprise Architect profession: An empirical study", The 9th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME), 2015.

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2015

MSc

T. Besker, , R. Olsson "A Profession as Enterprise Architect" Thesis – 60 HE credits, University of Gothenburg, 2015.

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