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Although incurring TD is not intrinsically bad, tracking and managing TD are crucial to avoid its negative effects. Hence, researchers and practitioners have proposed and developed diverse approaches and tools for managing TD. However, we are still lacking specialized tools for technical debt management (TDM), specifically ones that can be easily integrated into existing development workflows.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present and evaluate TagDebt, a bot that can be integrated within GitHub repositories and automatically assign labels to issues (i.e., SATD or non-SATD). TagDebt helps in the identification of TD (i.e., by looking for self-admitted technical debt (SATD)), leading to more efficient TDM.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We carried out a Design Science Research study to design and implement TagDebt. For its evaluation, we executed a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) study through interviews with 16 practitioners, to check the bot\u2019s usefulness, ease of use, and contextual factors that might impact the bot\u2019s usage (such as team size and practitioners\u2019 roles).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall, practitioners found that TagDebt is useful, especially for organizing issues and reducing manual work. Furthermore, they pointed out that the bot is overall easy to use, and its documentation is clear. The analysis also revealed that contextual factors, such as team and codebase size, impact the decision to adopt TagDebt. Finally, several improvements were suggested, such as including features to check and update the source code.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>TagDebt is a proof-of-concept for the development and usage of more specialized tools for TDM. 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