Socio-Technical Factors

Debt Stories: Capturing Social and Technical Debt in the Industry

In today's organizations, software is mission-critical. However, the legacy of past decisions can make tasks related to artifacts increasingly inefficient or risky, creating debt. While most researchers and practitioners mainly focus on technical …

GitDelver Enterprise Dataset (GDED): An Industrial Closed-source Dataset for Socio-Technical Research

Conducting socio-technical software engineering research on closed-source software is difficult as most organizations do not want to give access to their code repositories. Most experiments and publications therefore focus on open-source projects, …