Navigating social debt and its link with technical debt in large-scale agile software development projects

IF 1.7 3区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Software Quality Journal Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1007/s11219-024-09688-y

Hina Saeeda, Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Tomas Gustavsson

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Agile methodologies have emerged as transformative paradigms in the ever-evolving software development landscape, emphasizing iterative development, customer collaboration, and adaptability. As the scope and complexity of projects and organizations expand, applying agile principles within the context of Large-Scale Agile Development (LSAD) encounters distinctive challenges. The majority of challenges encountered in LSAD, technical and non-technical, are attributed to the accrual of social debt. However, a conspicuous gap remains in understanding and addressing social debt in LSAD. This study aims to fill this void by investigating social debt in LSAD through an in-depth industrial case study with a leading Nordic company specializing in telecommunications software and services and focusing on producing secure 5G network solutions. The study investigates the causes of LSAD’s social debt and examines its impacts on secure 5G telecom software development. By addressing these objectives, this research sheds light on a critical aspect of LSAD’s social debt, caused by 3C challenges(communication, coordination and collaboration), social confines challenges, community smells challenges, and organisational social challenges in the telecom sector that have been underrepresented in the existing literature.

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在大型敏捷软件开发项目中引导社会债务及其与技术债务的联系

在不断发展的软件开发领域，敏捷方法已成为一种变革范式，它强调迭代开发、客户协作和适应性。随着项目和组织的范围和复杂性不断扩大，在大规模敏捷开发（LSAD）中应用敏捷原则遇到了独特的挑战。LSAD 中遇到的大多数挑战，无论是技术性的还是非技术性的，都归因于社会债务的累积。然而，在理解和解决 LSAD 中的社会债务方面仍存在明显差距。本研究旨在填补这一空白，通过对一家北欧领先的电信软件和服务公司进行深入的行业案例研究，调查 LSAD 中的社会债务问题，该公司专注于生产安全的 5G 网络解决方案。本研究调查了 LSAD 社会债务的原因，并研究了其对安全 5G 电信软件开发的影响。通过实现这些目标，本研究揭示了 LSAD 社会债务的一个重要方面，即由 3C 挑战（沟通、协调与合作）、社会限制挑战、社区气味挑战和电信行业组织社会挑战造成的社会债务，这些挑战在现有文献中未得到充分反映。

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Software Quality Journal 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

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4.90

自引率

5.30%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The aims of the Software Quality Journal are: (1) To promote awareness of the crucial role of quality management in the effective construction of the software systems developed, used, and/or maintained by organizations in pursuit of their business objectives. (2) To provide a forum of the exchange of experiences and information on software quality management and the methods, tools and products used to measure and achieve it. (3) To provide a vehicle for the publication of academic papers related to all aspects of software quality. The Journal addresses all aspects of software quality from both a practical and an academic viewpoint. It invites contributions from practitioners and academics, as well as national and international policy and standard making bodies, and sets out to be the definitive international reference source for such information. The Journal will accept research, technique, case study, survey and tutorial submissions that address quality-related issues including, but not limited to: internal and external quality standards, management of quality within organizations, technical aspects of quality, quality aspects for product vendors, software measurement and metrics, software testing and other quality assurance techniques, total quality management and cultural aspects. Other technical issues with regard to software quality, including: data management, formal methods, safety critical applications, and CASE.