Monitoring the contribution of development teams in the evolution of technical debt items in software projects

he adequate monitoring of technical debt (TD) is necessary to increase the chances of success of software projects, which also depend on the effective monitoring of the practitioners involved in their development. Several strategies have been proposed to support TD management. However, the relationship between TD and how much developers contribute to its existence has not yet been investigated. This paper presents a strategy to monitor the contribution of development teams to the TD accumulation in software projects. The proposed strategy was evaluated using the Technology Acceptance Model. The results indicated that the strategy is useful for supporting TD monitoring activities, with 97% of participants indicating that they would use it. In addition, about 76% of respondents agreed that the strategy is user-friendly and allows greater productivity and agility in monitoring the relationship between TD and members of the development team.