SATDBailiff-mining and tracking self-admitted technical debt

Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a metaphorical concept to describe the self-documented addition of technical debt software project in form source code comments. SATD can linger projects and degrade source-code quality, but it also be more visible than unintentionally added or undocumented debt. Understanding implications adding important because developers benefit from better understanding quality trade-offs they are making. However, empirical studies, analyzing survivability removal comments, challenged by potential changes comment updates that may interfere with properly tracking their appearance, existence, removal. In this paper, we propose SATDBailiff, tool uses an existing state-of-the-art detection tool, identify method then track lifespan. SATDBailiff given as input links open projects, its output list all identified SATDs, for each detected SATD, reports associated changes, including any text, way reporting The goal aid researchers practitioners SATDs instances, providing them reliable easily extended. was validated using dataset previously manually instances. publicly available source, along manual analysis instances validation, on website.1