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The Danger of Architectural Technical Debt: Contagious Debt and Vicious Circles 架构技术债务的危险:传染性债务和恶性循环

2015 12th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture Pub Date : 2015-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/WICSA.2015.31

A. Martini, J. Bosch

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