Limiting technical debt with maintainability assurance an industry survey on used techniques and differences with service- and microservice-based systems

Maintainability assurance techniques are used to control this quality attribute and limit the accumulation of potentially unknown technical debt. Since the industry state of practice and especially the handling of Service- and Microservice-Based Systems in this regard are not well covered in scienti...

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Published in:2018 IEEE ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt) pp. 125 - 133
Main Authors: Bogner, Justus, Fritzsch, Jonas, Wagner, Stefan, Zimmermann, Alfred
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Companies
Industries
industry
Maintainability
Measurement
microservice-based systems
Quality control
service based systems
Sociology
Software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues > Maintaining software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues > Software evolution
software quality control
survey
survey
industry
software quality control
maintainability
microservice-based systems
service-based systems
ISBN:145035713X, 9781450357135
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Summary:Maintainability assurance techniques are used to control this quality attribute and limit the accumulation of potentially unknown technical debt. Since the industry state of practice and especially the handling of Service- and Microservice-Based Systems in this regard are not well covered in scientific literature, we created a survey to gather evidence for a) used processes, tools, and metrics in the industry, b) maintainability-related treatment of systems based on service-orientation, and c) influences on developer satisfaction w.r.t. maintainability. 60 software professionals responded to our online questionnaire. The results indicate that using explicit and systematic techniques has benefits for maintainability. The more sophisticated the applied methods the more satisfied participants were with the maintainability of their software while no link to a hindrance in productivity could be established. Other important findings were the absence of architecture-level evolvability control mechanisms as well as a significant neglect of service-oriented particularities for quality assurance. The results suggest that industry has to improve its quality control in these regards to avoid problems with long-living service-based software systems.
ISBN:145035713X
9781450357135
DOI:10.1145/3194164.3194166