TestDCat: Catalog of Test Debt Subtypes and Management Activities Bruno S. Arag˜ ao (B ) , Rossana M. C. Andrade, Ismayle S. Santos, Rute N. S. Castro, Val´ eria Lelli, and Ticianne G. R. Darin Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering, and Systems (GREat), Federal University of Cear´a (UFC), Fortaleza, Cear´ a, Brazil {bruno,rossana,ismaylesantos,rute,valerialelli, ticiannedarin}@great.ufc.br Abstract. When deadlines and resources of software projects become scarce, testing is usually in the first row to have its activities aborted or reduced. If defects cannot be found, products quality can be affected. In a software development process, aborted or reduced activities that can bring short-term benefits, but can be harmful to the project in a long run, are considered Technical Debt (TD). When TDs impact test- ing activities, they are called Test Debt. There are several studies dealing with Test Debt, however, current solutions often deal with specific types of tests (e.g., exploratory and automated tests) and do not address the whole software testing process. Aiming to fill these gaps, this paper pro- poses a Test Debt Catalog with subtypes of Test Debts and technical debt management activities. This catalog was built based on semi-structured interviews conducted with practitioners who perform testing activities in five projects from industry. With our catalog, we intend to help the management of test debts during the execution of software testing pro- cesses. Keywords: Technical Debt · Test Debt · Testing process · TD management activity 1 Introduction Software Testing is one of the most commonly used approaches to evaluate soft- ware quality [14]. Moreover, one way to mitigate the risk of projects failing to perform tasks related to software testing is the use of a well-defined testing pro- cess. By using a process, the software development team can monitor and control the activities, as well as adjust them as required [14]. However, when deadlines or resources become scarce, organizations tend to reduce tasks and practices related to software testing [23]. Besides this, even B. S. Arag˜ao—Researcher scholarship - Master student, sponsored by FCPC. R. M. C. Andrade—Researcher scholarship - DT Level 2, sponsored by CNPq. I. S. Santos and R. N. S. Castro—PhD student Scholarship, sponsored by CAPES. c  IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2019 Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 C. Gaston et al. (Eds.): ICTSS 2019, LNCS 11812, pp. 279–295, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31280-0_18