One extra CodeHealth point is associated with 3.5% to 6.1% lower agent review-and-fix token cost, but the association is absorbed when the total size of the scored files is added to the model.
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Journal of Systems and Software 101:193--220
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A five-workshop action research program helped an embedded software team adopt technical debt management, with backlog reminders sustaining awareness better than workshop information alone.
A 6-week observational case study conceptualizes how a multidisciplinary data-intensive team identifies, assesses, treats, and breaks down technical debt to fit sprint capacity.
Negative sentiment in self-admitted technical debt comments causes a minority of developers to rate the debt as higher priority than an otherwise similar neutral comment.
Design smells such as cyclic dependencies and missing encapsulation measurably alter software practitioners' self-reported valence, arousal, and dominance, with cyclic dependencies causing the strongest displeasure.
A practitioner study with 11 participants produces a six-family taxonomy of stakeholder criteria for technical debt decisions, distinguishing acquisition from repayment functions.
ML-specific code smells occur 41-94 times less often than general Python smells in 279 projects, with associations to commit frequency and domain but none for general smells or most other project characteristics.
A multivocal review of 108 studies finds architectural degradation is a socio-technical process whose measurement is well supported but whose continuous remediation is largely missing.
A Dagstuhl workshop manifesto that consolidates technical debt management into ten principles and a five-phase roadmap, emphasizing value, architecture, and socio-technical factors.
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