A dedicated workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture 2027 for researchers and practitioners studying Technical Credit as a first-class concept in software engineering.
Technical Credit describes the long-term engineering value created by deliberate architectural and development decisions aligned with anticipated business needs. Examples include modular designs, explicit design rationale, robust automation pipelines, stable APIs, and other investments that make future system evolution less costly and less risky.
IWTC 2027 invites researchers and practitioners to share perspectives, discuss early empirical findings, explore ways to measure and operationalize Technical Credit, and examine tooling strategies for its creation, visibility, tracking, and recognition.
We welcome contributions from software architecture, architecture knowledge management, requirements engineering, software metrics, empirical software engineering, technical debt, AI for software engineering, and related communities.
Contributions may investigate indicators that capture the presence and value of Technical Credit, including whether existing software quality metrics can be reused or adapted.
Contributions may explore lightweight tool support that makes Technical Credit visible where architectural and engineering decisions are made and validated.
Contributions may study how teams recognize, enact, communicate, protect, or lose Technical Credit across organizational and business contexts.
Contributions may connect Technical Credit to novel software architecture research, AI for software architecture, and socio-technical architecture and governance.
The workshop proposal plans for approximately 10 to 15 position papers of up to four pages, aligned with the Technical Credit themes and the workshop goal of building a shared research agenda.
Accepted papers are expected to contribute to the workshop discussion, not only to present finished results.
Position papers of up to four pages.
Submissions must follow the IEEE conference proceedings format and abide by the single-anonymous submission process.
All submissions must be original work and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All contributions should be submitted before the submission deadline using ICSA's EasyChair online submission site.
Each submission will be reviewed by two experienced reviewers.
Accepted authors will prepare 2 to 3 slides and present the core idea in a two-minute lightning talk.
Authors will take part in breakout groups and plenary discussion aimed at shaping a community roadmap.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present at the workshop.
To be defined.
To be defined.
To be defined.
To be defined.
To be defined.
To be defined.
