Valentina Lenarduzzi

Towards a Holistic Definition of Requirements Debt

2019

When not appropriately managed, technical debt is considered to have negative effects to the long term success of software projects. However, how the debt metaphor applies to requirements engineering in general, and to requirements engineering …

Impact of Opportunistic Reuse Practices to Technical Debt

2021

Technical debt (TD) has been recognized as an important quality problem for both software architecture and code. The evolution of TD techniques over the past years has led to a number of research and commercial …

Cohort Studies for Mining Software Repositories

2024

Mining Software Repositories studies have become increasingly popular over the years. However, a notable limitation is that they report correlational relationships rather than establishing causation. In contrast, certain disciplines (e.g. epidemiology) have developed specific methods …

Beyond Words: On Large Language Models Actionability in Mission-Critical Risk Analysis

2024

Context. Risk analysis assesses potential risks in specific scenarios. Risk analysis principles are context-less; the same methodology can be applied to a risk connected to health and information technology security. Risk analysis requires a vast …