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A technical debt estimator quantifies the accumulated cost of shortcuts and deferred refactoring in a codebase. Technical debt grows with compound interest — small shortcuts that take 1 hour now may require 10 hours to fix later when they have caused systemic issues.

Guide étape par étape

  1. 1Identify shortcuts and workarounds
  2. 2Estimate refactoring effort
  3. 3Calculate opportunity cost

Exemples résolus

Entrée
10 days refactoring to reduce by 20%
Résultat
Estimated 2 day/quarter savings
Varies by complexity

Erreurs courantes à éviter

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