TechDebt 2020: International Conference on Technical Debt ICSE Seoul, South Korea, May 25-26, 2020 |
Conference website | https://2020.techdebtconf.org/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=techdebt2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 10, 2020 |
Submission deadline | January 17, 2020 |
Tool presentation paper | January 27, 2020 |
Tool presentation paper (Ext. abstract) | February 20, 2020 |
The Third International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt 2020) will be held in Seoul, Korea, on May 25–26, 2020, collocated with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020).
Web: https://2020.techdebtconf.org/
Technical debt is a metaphor that software developers and managers increasingly use to communicate key trade-offs between time to market and software quality issues.
While other software engineering disciplines - such as software maintenance and evolution, refactoring, software quality, and empirical software engineering - have produced results relevant to managing technical debt, none of them alone suffice to model, manage, and communicate the different facets of the trade-off problems involved in managing technical debt. Similarly, while many software engineering practices can be used to get ahead of technical debt, organizations struggle with managing technical debt routinely and strategically.
TechDebt 2020 aims to bring together leading software engineering researchers and practitioners to explore theoretical and practical techniques for managing technical debt and to share experiences, challenges, and best practices.
The conference addresses all topics related to technical debt, including
- Concept and scope of technical debt
- The business case for technical debt management
- Understanding causes and effects of technical debt
- Organizational and management debt
- Technical debt management within software life-cycle management
- Technical debt and requirements engineering (including requirements debt)
- Technical debt in design and architecture (including architectural debt)
- Technical debt and testing
- Technical debt and software evolution, maintenance, and aging (including documentation debt)
- Analysis, visualization and measurement of technical debt
- Economic models for describing or reasoning about technical debt
- Techniques and tools for calculating technical debt principal and interest
- Concrete practices and tools used to manage technical debt
- Debt remediation and refactoring
- AI and machine learning to manage technical debt
- Technical debt in multi-cultural and distributed development
- Technical debt and DevOps
- Technical debt in software models
- Technical debt and quality attributes, such as security (especially at run-time)
- Technical debt in (ultra-) large-scale systems, ecosystems, platforms and product lines
- Technical debt in data-intensive systems
- Technical debt in distributed systems (including server-less, mobile, IoT)
- Beyond software - technical debt in systems engineering
- Exploratory studies of technical debt in practice
- Success and failure stories of technical debt management
- Replication of studies related to technical debt
- Meta-studies on technical debt
- Education and training related to technical debt
We invite submissions of papers to the Technical Track in any areas related to the theme and goal of the conference in the following categories:
- Research Papers (up to 10 pages): innovative and significant original research in the field
- Experience Papers (up to 10 pages): industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems, and solutions
- Education and Training Papers (up to 10 pages): experiences, approaches and tools for teaching topics in academic courses or industrial training (e.g., lesson plans, assignments)
- Short Papers (up to 5 pages): position and future trend papers describing ongoing research or new results, descriptions or examples of problems and solutions in real-life settings that pose fundamental or characteristic challenges
If you would like to submit a tool demo or description of a tool (either to complement your submission to the Technical Track or as a separate submission), please refer to the Tools Track of TechDebt 2020. The Tools Track accepts tool presentation papers (up to 5 pages) and extended abstracts (up to 2 pages).
Submissions must be original and unpublished work. Each paper submitted to the main Technical Track will undergo a rigorous review process by at least three members of the program committee.
TechDebt 2020 adopts a double-blind review process for the main Technical Track (only). Therefore, all submissions to this track have to fulfill the double-blind reviewing requirements. Any submission that does not comply with these requirements may be desk-rejected without further review.
Evaluation criteria:
- Relevance: Submission must respond to Call for Papers.
- Soundness: Are all claimed contributions supported by the rigorous application of appropriate research methods? Claims should be scoped to what can be supported, and limitations should be discussed.
- Significance: Are contributions evaluated for their importance and impact with respect to the existing body of knowledge? The authors are expected to explicitly argue for the relevance and usefulness of the research and discuss the novelty of the claimed contributions through a comparison with pertinent related work.
- Novelty: Is there sufficient originality in the contribution, and is it clearly and correctly explained with respect to the state of the art?
- Replicability: Is there sufficient information in the paper for the results to be independently replicated? The evaluation of submissions will take into account the extent to which sufficient information is available to support the full or partial independent replication of the claimed findings.
- Presentation Quality: Are results clearly presented? Submissions are expected to meet high standards of presentation, including adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and respect of the formatting instructions.
The weighting and relevance of the above criteria varies for paper types.
TechDebt 2020 would like to foster Open Science Practices to increase accessibility, reproducibility, and replicability of research.
Submissions must be submitted online via the TechDebtConf2020 EasyChair conference management system and conform to the ACM formatting guidelines applied for ICSE 2020. Formatting instructions are available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.
Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an ACM Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register and attend the conference and present the paper in person. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2020. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed.
Excellent papers will be considered for a Best Paper Award and invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a Special Issue of Elsevier’s Information & Software Technology journal.
Important dates:
- January 10, 2020: Abstracts submissions due (Technical Track only)
- January 17, 2020: Papers submission due (Technical Track only)
- January 27, 2020: Tool presentation papers due (Tools Track only)
- February 20, 2020: Extended abstracts due (Tools Track only)
- March 2, 2020: Notification of acceptance or rejection
- March 15, 2020: Camera-ready papers
- March 17, 2020: Early registration
- May 25–26, 2020: Conference