An update:
Zadia is getting responses to her survey, but could use more. Please do respond and encourage your friends and colleagues to also respond. The more we participate, the more valuable the research will be for us all. Thanks!
Zadia Codabux, a PhD student at Mississippi State and an IBM PhD fellow is conducting at survey on technical debt. Here is her call for participation:
Dear Participant,
In an effort to understand software practitioner perceptions of technical debt, we are requesting your participation in our research study.
The goals of this study are as follows:
1. Gather insights from practitioners with varying years of experience and roles in the software development industry on technical debt
2. Extract commonalities and differences in their perceptions
3. Establish a foundation for further research in technical debt
The potential benefits of this study include:
1. Establish definition(s) for technical debt for further clarification of the metaphor for practitioners and researchers
2. Report industrial practices for quantifying, communicating, and incurring technical debt
These benefits will enhance researcher and practitioner understanding of the technical debt metaphor.
You are being asked to participate in a short survey on Technical Debt. Your responses are confidential. We will not keep record of any personally identifiable information, and all data will be analyzed as a group.
We estimate that it will take you approximately 15 minutes to complete the survey. Simply click on the link below or cut and paste the URL into your browser to access the survey: http://bit.ly/1a0wt16
We would appreciate your response by March 16, 2014 Midnight CST. Your input is very important to us and will be kept strictly confidential (used only for the purposes of research for this project). This research has been approved by the Mississippi State University Institutional Review Board (IRB HRPP Study #13-200).
Please do participate.
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