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Table 4 A comparison between VisminerTD and the other related tools

From: VisminerTD: a tool for automatic identification and interactive monitoring of the evolution of technical debt items

Characteristics

VisminerTD

SonarQube

DebtFlag

CAST AIP

License

Free

Free

Not Found

Commercial

Programming languages

Java

Java and 20 others

Java

Java and 50 others

New parsers

Yes

Yes

No

No

Repository mining

Yes

No

No

No

Object-oriented metrics

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Style problems

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

ASA issues

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Code Smells

Yes

Yes

No

No

Custom TD thresholds

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Multiple versions analysis

Yes

No

No

No

Source metrics analysis

Yes

Yes

No

No

Code comments analysis

Yes

No

No

No

Availability

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Standalone

Yes

Yes

No

Yes