Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 The Importance of Technical Debt
3 Requirements Debt
4 Design and Architecture Debt
Case Study A: Brightsquid
5 Implementation Debt
6 Testing Debt
Case Study B: Twitter
7 Deployment Debt
8 Documentation Debt
Case Study C: Scientific Software
9 Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems
10 Team Management and Social Debt
11 Making the Business Case
12 Conclusions
Appendix--Full Text of Interviews
Interview: Marco Bartollini
Interview: Julien Danjou
Interview: Nicolas Devillard
Interview: Vadim Mikhnevych
Interview: Andriy Shapochka
Index

About the Author

Neil Ernst is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Julien Delange is Staff Software Engineer at Twitter and Founder of Code Inspector, a technical debt platform analysis. Rick Kazman is Professor in the Department of Information Technology Management at the University of Hawaii and Visiting Researcher at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.