Identifying Architectural Technical Debt in Android Applications through Automated Compliance Checking

By considering the fast pace at which mobile applications need to evolve, Architectural Technical Debt results to be a crucial yet implicit factor of success. In this research we present an approach to automatically identify Architectural Technical Debt in Android applications. The approach takes advantage of architectural guidelines extraction and modeling, architecture reverse engineering, and compliance checking. As future work, we plan to fully automate the process and empirically evaluate it via large-scale experiments.