Technical Debt in Costa Rica: An InsighTD Survey Replication

摘要

InsighTD is a globally distributed family of industrial surveys on causes and effects of Technical Debt (TD). We are currently analyzing the data gathered from the independent replication of the questionnaire in Costa Rica. In total, 156 professionals from the Costa Rican software industry answered the survey. Initial results indicate that there is a broad familiarity with the concept of TD. For the examples reported, it seems that the type of TD were product of situations that could have been prevented. TD was monitored for slightly more than half of cases, and TD was not paid in most cases. In future articles, we will report causes and the effects of TD in Costa Rica.