Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management

This zip file contains twelve files and one folder to replicate and verify the study evaluating the TAP Framework (for Technical debt Aware Project management).

    * TDframework_ticket_rawdata_revised_anonymised.xlsx: 
    revised and anonymized raw data for tickets statistic containing two sheets for TD ticket and maintenance ticket

    * TDframework_survey_questions_and_SPSSvariable_definition.xlsx: 
    excel sheet with all survey questions in German and English language, SPSS variable names, and short names

    * TDframework_survey_results.sav:
    survey results already in SPSS format, variables with suffix "D" are dichotomized versions of the variables as explained in the paper.

    * TDframework_survey_results.xslx:
    Excel-Export of TDframework_survey_results.sav

    * MannWhitneyUTest.spv:
    results of the Mann-Whitney U-Test which show the significances of the hypothesis mentioned in the paper (Section 5.2.2)

    * MannWhitneyUTest.xslx:
    Excel-Export of MannWhitneyUTest.sav

    * Correlations.spv
    results of the Chi-square test for correlations and the significances mentioned in the paper (Section 5.2.3)

    * Correlations.xslx:
    Excel-Export of Correlations.sav

    * Management-Survey_2021_en.pdf:
        - original survey with englisch translation of the questions

    * Management-Survey_2021_XXX.pdf:
    results of the management survey from 
        - team manager of the observed unit (TMO), participant A
        - team manager of the comparison unit (TMC), participant B
        - unit manager of the observed unit (UMO), participant C
        - unit manager of the comparison unit (UMC), participant C
    UMC => no survey, but email conversation between author and UMC to get the answers for the comparison unit

    * folder "Case Study Protocol"
    contains the case study protocol according to Runeson's guidelines.