Marius Irgens

• Irgens, Marius; Orucevic, Mili; Boye, Mads; Gundelsby, Jan Henrik & Martini, Antonio (2025). DebtQuest: Discover Technical Debt Management Issues with Survey Visualization. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT). ISSN 2379-7576. 2025, p. 25–35. doi: 10.1109/vissoft67405.2025.00011. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  While Technical Debt (TD) manifest in systems as code-related symptoms, it is often caused by management-related issues. However, existing TD visualization tools are primarily code-based, and limited in addressing organizational factors. In this context, we introduce DebtQuest: an interactive, survey-based visualization tool designed to help assess an organization’s TD management practices. DebtQuest enables stakeholders to explore insights, pinpoint issues, perform benchmarking, and compare changes across time. Complementing the capabilities of code-based tools to discover TD symptoms, DebtQuest supports the discovery of underlying organizational causes. DebtQuest’s design is grounded in task analysis and a targeted review of relevant visualization techniques. It was refined through real-world use and evaluated by industry stakeholders. The contribution of this work is an accessible and flexible visualization design that extends recent research in TD management, revealing organizational insights that are difficult to discover using code-based tools.

• Irgens, Marius & Martini, Antonio (2025). Visualization Usage in Technical Debt Management. In Peter, Sybille (Eds.), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 26th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2025, Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland, June 2–5, 2025, Proceedings | SpringerLink. Springer. ISSN 9783031945441. p. 186–194. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-94544-1_13. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Visualization is a promising technique in TD management, but with various tools offering visualization, the question arise: is it being used effectively by practitioners? Through an analysis of survey data from 417 participants across seven international companies, we examine the current use of visualization and its perceived potential to improve TD management. Our findings reveal that while visualization tools are not widely used, there is a clear desire for enhanced visualization capabilities.

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