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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.

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

Worked Examples

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• ✕Wrong parameters
• ✕Missing adjustments

Frequently Asked Questions