Machine Learning for Software Technical Debt Detection

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Abstract

The problem of technical debt arises when part of software source code is upgrading not directly, but is fixed in the second place as outdated. Three corresponding models are presented. Machine learning is used to find code smells. The effectiveness of the approach for specific data is established and the prospect of expanding to a greater number of different cases is outlined.

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V. V. Kachanov

Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS, 109004, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141701, Dolgoprudni, Russia

Email: vkachanov@ispras.ru
Россия, Москва; Россия, МО, Долгопрудный

S. I. Markov

Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS, 109004, Moscow, Russia

Email: markov@ispras.ru
Россия, Москва

V. I. Tsurkov

Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333, Moscow, Russia

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Email: tsur@ccas.ru
Россия, Москва

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