Pith Number

pith:3R6GFXWK

pith:2025:3R6GFXWKXZFAZKAEXQTVMLNPXS

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Tracing the Lifecycle of Architecture Technical Debt in Software Systems: A Dependency Approach

Andrea Capiluppi, Edi Sutoyo, Paris Avgeriou

arxiv:2501.15387 v2 · 2025-01-26 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{3R6GFXWKXZFAZKAEXQTVMLNPXS}

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Descriptor: C++ Self-Admitted Technical Debt Dataset (CppSATD)

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:58:22.791448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc7c62decabe4a0ca804bc27562dafbcad1c8bd8c4bae9dcfb37491cdf4cbe46

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.15387 · arxiv_version: 2501.15387v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.15387 · pith_short_12: 3R6GFXWKXZFA · pith_short_16: 3R6GFXWKXZFAZKAE · pith_short_8: 3R6GFXWK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3R6GFXWKXZFAZKAEXQTVMLNPXS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: dc7c62decabe4a0ca804bc27562dafbcad1c8bd8c4bae9dcfb37491cdf4cbe46

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "290f993b784dd156fa808a8e06c59f1d777052f428e0b5c568a5c072d68673da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-26T03:58:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b5522e749013eb09b8a4f0299c14597d975f7cb52bcd1bb3fb2910690cfa4f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.15387",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}