University Industry Collaboration

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, …

Identifying software maintainability risks is hard yet essential for large organizations like Forem. Such risks are, by nature, socio-technical, but the technical and social parts are usually considered separately, preventing managers from having a …

This project aims at developing a holistic approach to socio-technical debt by designing a framework for helping developers and managers to address software debt and prioritize mitigating actions in an industrial context.