Restraining Technical Debt when Developing Large-Scale Ajax Applications

Addressing technical debt during the software development process relies heavily on a refactoring phase, in which automatic code transformations are used as a crucial mechanism to reduce a system's technical debt. However, automatic refactoring is not an option when developing Ajax applications. Therefore, an approach that restrains the accumulation of a system's technical debt is needed. In this paper, we present and evaluate such an approach and its reification as a framework. We conclude that our proposed framework enables restraining technical debt in a large-scale Ajax application without the need for automatic code

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