Adam Tornhill

Most-cited papers

1. Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality - A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases

   Adam Tornhill, Markus Borg

   20222022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)54 citations Open access

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2. Increasing, not Diminishing: Investigating the Returns of Highly Maintainable Code

   Markus Borg, Ilyana Pruvost, Enys Mones, Adam Tornhill

   20242024 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)18 citations Open access

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3. Prioritize Technical Debt in Large-Scale Systems Using CodeScene

   Adam Tornhill

   20182018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)16 citations

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4. Assessing Technical Debt in Automated Tests with CodeScene

   Adam Tornhill

   2018International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops15 citations

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5. U Owns the Code That Changes and How Marginal Owners Resolve Issues Slower in Low-Quality Source Code

   Markus Borg, Adam Tornhill, Enys Mones

   2023International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering14 citations Open access

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6. ACE: Automated Technical Debt Remediation with Validated Large Language Model Refactorings

   Adam Tornhill, Markus Borg, Nadim Hagatulah, E. Söderberg

   2025SIGSOFT FSE Companion11 citations Open access

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7. Ghost Echoes Revealed: Benchmarking Maintainability Metrics and Machine Learning Predictions Against Human Assessments

   Markus Borg, Marwa Ezzouhri, Adam Tornhill

   2024IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution11 citations Open access

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8. Code for Machines, Not Just Humans: Quantifying AI-Friendliness with Code Health Metrics

   Markus Borg, Nadim Hagatulah, Adam Tornhill, E. Söderberg

   2026FORGE@ICSE8 citations Open access

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9. Industrial Code Quality Benchmarks: Toward Gamification of Software Maintainability

   Markus Borg, Amogha Udayakumar, Adam Tornhill

   20242025 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Gamification in Software Development, Verification, and Validation (Gamify)3 citations Open access

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10. Code Health in LLM-Based Test Generation: Effectiveness and Token Efficiency

    Freya Wirdemann, Markus Borg, Nadim Hagatulah, Adam Tornhill

    20262 citations

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11. Code Process Metrics in University Programming Education

    Linus W. Dietz, Robin Lichtenthäler, Adam Tornhill, S. Harrer

    2019Software Engineering2 citations

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12. Technical Debt Friction for Maintenance Prioritization: An Industrial Multi-Case Study

    Simeon Tverdal, P. Nguyen, Arda Goknil, Antonio Martini +2 more

    2026arXiv.org0 citations

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