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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.

Guia passo a passo

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

Exemplos resolvidos

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

Erros comuns a evitar

  • Wrong parameters
  • Missing adjustments

Perguntas frequentes

What does this calculator do?

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How do I use this calculator?

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