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architectural technical debt: a standalone construct

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suboptimal architecture decisions whose cost grows over time as interest, modeled from causes through accumulated debt to its effects on maintenance.

In software engineering, architectural technical debt refers to suboptimal architecture decisions whose cost grows over time as interest, modeled from causes through accumulated debt to its effects on maintenance. This meaning comes from Besker (2018) in Journal of Systems and Software.[1]

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Besker, T., Martini, A., & Bosch, J. (2018). Managing architectural technical debt: A unified model and systematic literature review. Journal of Systems and Software, 135, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2017.09.025

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