DebtFlag: Technical Debt Management with a Development Environment Integrated Tool



: Johannes Holvitie, Ville Leppänen

: Kruchten Philippe, Nord Robert, Ozkaya Ipek

: 2013

: 2013 4th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (MTD)

: 978-1-4673-6443-0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MTD.2013.6608674


In this paper, we introduce the DebtFlag tool for capturing, tracking and resolving technical debt in software projects. DebtFlag integrates into the development environment and provides developers with lightweight documentation tools to capture technical debt and link them to corresponding parts in the implementation. During continued development these links are used to create propagation paths for the documented debt. This allows for an up-to-date and accurate presentation of technical debt to be upheld, which enables developer conducted implementation-level micromanagement as well as higher level technical debt management.



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