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Restraining Technical Debt when Developing Large-Scale Ajax Applications

Authors:
Yoav Rubin
Shmuel Kallner
Nili Guy
Gal Shachor

Keywords: software engineering; dynamic languages; code reuse; technical debt; Ajax

Abstract:
Addressing technical debt during the software development process relies heavily on a refactoring phase, in which automatic code transformations are used as a crucial mechanism to reduce a system's technical debt. However, automatic refactoring is not an option when developing Ajax applications. Therefore, an approach that restrains the accumulation of a system's technical debt is needed. In this paper, we present and evaluate such an approach and its reification as a framework. We conclude that our proposed framework enables restraining technical debt in a large-scale Ajax application without the need for automatic code refactoring tools.

Pages: 13 to 18

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4421

ISBN: 978-1-61208-248-6

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013