Comments or Issues: Where to Document Technical Debt?

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Authors Laerte Xavier, JoΓ£o Eduardo Montandon, Marco Tulio Valente arXiv ID 2408.15109 Category cs.SE: Software Engineering Citations 4 Venue IEEE Software Last Checked 4 months ago
Abstract
Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a form of Technical Debt where developers document the debt using source code comments (SATD-C) or issues (SATD-I). However, it is still unclear the circumstances that drive developers to choose one or another. In this paper, we survey authors of both types of debts using a large-scale dataset containing 74K SATD-C and 20K SATD-I instances, extracted from 190 GitHub projects. As a result, we provide 13 guidelines to support developers to decide when to use comments or issues to report Technical Debt.
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