Ten types of technical debt
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- Out-of-date libraries or frameworks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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