Identificação e monitoramento de dívida técnica no setor de tecnologia da informação da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - um estudo de caso exploratório

Abstract

The technical debt metaphor, explained by Ward Cunningham in 1992, is compromised quality to be used immature practices in software development, justified by several reasons. The danger of contracting such debt is not in fact be acquired, but in the absence of your payments, i.e., when they aren’t paid and end up forgotten in the code. In this sense, the present study sought to identify in Information Technology sector of Federal University of Fronteira Sul existing technical debt and find a debt management model that could help in the identification and monitoring of debts. To achieve these goals this research set out to define the state of the art seeking work related to technical debt. Present research sought to further spread the culture of technical debt in the case studied, suggest ways of technical debt monitoring and identify the impact of the suggestions within the team. To accomplish these actions, it was performed an exploratory case study and used qualitative data collection techniques that were analyzed using the methodology called Grounded Theory. A technical debt management model was built where it’s possible view forms of identification and monitoring technical debt. This model was created in conjunction with members of the study team that used during a semester. At the end it was validated through interviews where it was identified that the model helped the team to reflect on the existing quality problems in the code and create a way to manage them.