Pith Number

pith:3UVB6RYL

pith:2022:3UVB6RYLUDVV4S5FUL3Q7IKYD2

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Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring

Ali Ouni, Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer

arxiv:2203.05660 v1 · 2022-03-10 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3UVB6RYLUDVV4S5FUL3Q7IKYD2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:04:08.061222Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd2a1f470ba0eb5e4ba5a2f70fa1581e80e515f3bd59e04ef018699bcf416406

Aliases

arxiv: 2203.05660 · arxiv_version: 2203.05660v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.05660 · pith_short_12: 3UVB6RYLUDVV · pith_short_16: 3UVB6RYLUDVV4S5F · pith_short_8: 3UVB6RYL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3UVB6RYLUDVV4S5FUL3Q7IKYD2 \
  | 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: dd2a1f470ba0eb5e4ba5a2f70fa1581e80e515f3bd59e04ef018699bcf416406

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3103bfaa274d7c9353242c4fc4356ea1cce8a7e95a89b12dff9f42892fc85f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2022-03-10T21:59:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd1fc4c966c93b39b23c383b7695f487915ab2f06b043ac71695f576e2cedd70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2203.05660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}