The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $288,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The grant will fund research to address the growing problem of "technical debt" in modern distributed and cloud-based software systems. Key objectives include:
Creating a unified model to capture the complex relationships in these distributed systems.
Empirically defining anti-patterns that identify architectural and design debt.
Developing new complexity metrics suitable for evaluating these contemporary distributed systems.
The 3-year project aims to enable software designers and managers to better visualize, quantify, and manage technical debt, leading to improved software products and development processes. As the prime awardee, the University of Hawaii at Manoa will conduct this research. No sub-award details were provided.