An Empirical Study of Technical Debt Management as a Motivation for Forking
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Date
2020
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In BENEVOL
Abstract
Forking is an often used idiom in software ecosystems
that allows for the immediate reuse of existing software
packages. Further, research shows that forking negatively impacts
software quality since it distributes the maintenance effort
across several repositories. However, there is a lack of sufficient
knowledge exploring the validity and applicability of forking as
an approach to solve software quality issues. In this position
paper we present a plan to investigate the effectiveness of forking
in managing technical debt.
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Forking, Software reuse, npm, SonarQube, Technical debt
Citation
Njima, M., Businge, J., & Demeyer, S. (2020). An Empirical Study of Technical Debt Management as a Motivation for Forking. In BENEVOL.