Continuous updating of technical debt status
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsEvelyn Duesterwald, Tamir Klinger
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Abstract
A system and method to automatically and continuously update the urgency rating of a backlog item associated with a technical debt item in a software development project are described. The technical debt represents potential additional work or rework associated with current code. The method includes a user defining a plurality of components that comprise the software development project. The method also includes a processor associating the technical debt with one or more components of the plurality of components, and the processor updating the urgency of the backlog item associated with the technical debt according to a function based on a development event associated with at least one of the one or more components.
Claims6
A method of automatically and continuously updating an urgency rating of a backlog item associated with a technical debt of a software development project, the technical debt representing potential additional work or rework associated with current code, the method comprising:
- defining a plurality of components that comprise the software development project;
- associating, with a processor, the technical debt with one or more components of the plurality of components;
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- updating, with the processor, the urgency rating of the backlog item associated with the technical debt according to a function based on a development event associated with at least one of the one or more components;
- initializing a state for each of the plurality of components and defining a second function for updating the state based on the development event, wherein the function to update the urgency rating uses the output of the second function.
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