• Jaspreet Bedi

Technical debt in the software development incurs due to preference of short term decisions ignoring strategic consequences. Changes in requirements of software in the fast growing and dynamic technology and business domains are obvious which may lead to increase in usage of quick and dirty approach resulting in code that is no longer clean. It is the point of introduction of debt called technical debt. The decision may be apt in situation due to absence of any alternative. If not paid for a long period of time it results in increasing technical debt. Just like financial debt interest grows with delay in payment and ultimately a situation of technical bankruptcy may arise. It is needed to study the factors contributing technical debt. The paper studies effect of code smells and commit frequency on technical debt. Correlation method of statistics is used for the purpose. The data is collected from PHP application Mockery from Github.

OSS, Technical debt, code smells, commit frequency.

"Relationship Of Code Smells And Commits With Technical Debt", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.579-585, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905R85.pdf

"Relationship Of Code Smells And Commits With Technical Debt", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp579-585, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905R85.pdf