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The Nature of Technical Debt in Research Software

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Main Authors:	Ernst, Neil A., Awon, Ahmed Musa, Hingmire, Swapnil, Li, Ze Shi
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Software Engineering
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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