We are a team of worldwide researchers towards cutting-edge and high-impact research on technical debt that brings concrete results for both the research community and the software industry.

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 Awards, honors, and achievements

Our paper "A Thematic Synthesis on Empathy in Software Engineering" received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 37th SBES 2023!!!   

Prof. Rodrigo Spinola will serve as the Program co-Chair of the 7th International Conference on Technical Debt 2024.

Our paper "Technical Debt on Agile Projects: Managers Point of View at Stack Exchange" received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 21th SBQS 2022!!!   

Our paper "Organizing the TD Management Landscape for Requirements and Documentation Debt" received the Best Paper Award at the 25th WER 2022!!!   

Prof. Rodrigo Spinola will serve as the Industry co-Chair of the 6th International Conference on Technical Debt 2023.


Dr. Savio Freire has successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis. Congrats for the great work!

We are thrilled to announce that the TDResearchTeam is now part of the Department of Computer Science of the College of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University!!!

According to a bibliometric study published at the Journal of Systems and Software, Prof. Rodrigo Spínola is one of the Top 10 Most Impactful Software Engineering Researchers at the "Consolidators" Level.

Dr. Nicolli Rios got an award from the Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS2021) as the Best Ph.D. Thesis defended in 2020, at the Contest of Thesis and Dissertations on Software Quality.

Great!!! Our paper "Technical Debt is not Only about Code and We Need to be Aware about It" received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 20th SBQS :).   

Dr. Nicolli Rios got an award from the Congresso Brasileiro de Software (CBSoft2021) as the 2nd Best Ph.D. Thesis defended in 2020, at the Contest of Thesis and Dissertations on Software Engineering.

Prof. Rodrigo Spínola received the Research Productivity Distinction Grant from the Brazilian National Research Council Level 2(CNPq).

April brings good news: the TDResearchTeam will be present at AMCIS'2021, presenting three papers from our students!

Wow, article on the relationship between TD management and process models accepted at IEEE Software!!! :)

Stop by CHASE and SANER'2021 to discuss with us human aspects of TD and the relation between the effects of TD and their repayment. 

Dr. Nicolli Rios has successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congrats for the great work!

InsighTD working meeting at TechDebt'2019. Great to see all of you guys.

Prof. Rodrigo Spínola received the David A. Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

Kickoff meeting of the InsighTD Project

We are located in the beautiful city of Richmond - VA, United States. More specifically, at the Department of Computer Science of the College of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University.