TD-Manager: a tool for managing technical debt through integrated catalog

摘要

Technical debt is an emergent area that has stimulated academical concern, its practical application cope development activities such as documentation, design, code and test. However, literature review pointed out an integration gap between identifying and accurately cataloging technical debt. It also mentioned bunch of tools for most activities on software development process that could identify technical debt, but there is not a described solution that supports cataloging all types of debt. In this context, this work aims to present an approach to catalog technical debt related to any activity mentioned, tabulating and managing its properties. This catalog is implemented by TD-Manager tool, that allows register technical debt and control debt status. In addition, the tool can integrate with technical debt identification tools and import debt to catalog. In order to show the approach, we present an integration of technical debt identified using Sonar, mapping relationship and managing external information integrated.