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Ten types of technical debt

Mirosław Stanek

Jul 13, 2023 • 3 min read

How do you describe your tech debt to business? Often saying, "We need to fix our technical debt," is not enough for the company to prioritize it. Here are frameworks that can help you with classification.

Ten types of technical debt

By Thoughtworks

Code quality
Testing
Coupling
Unused or low-value features
Out-of-date libraries or frameworks
Tooling
Reliability and performance engineering problems
Manual processes
Automated deployments
Knowledge sharing

By Google engineering

Migration is needed or in progress
Documentation on project and application programming interfaces (APIs)
Testing
Code quality
Dead and/or abandoned code
Code degradation
The team lacks necessary expertise
Dependencies
Migration was poorly executed or abandoned
Release process

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