You are designing an Azure DevOps strategy for your company’s development team.
You suspect that the team’s productivity is low due to accumulate technical debt.
You need to recommend a metric to assess the amount of the team’s technical debt.
What should you recommend?
A. the number of code modules in an application
B. the number of unit test failures
C. the percentage of unit test failures
D. the percentage of overall time spent on rework
Correct Answer: D
Technical Debt is the estimated cost to fix code elements issues.
Technical Debt Ratio: Ratio between the cost to develop the software and the cost to fix it. The Technical Debt Ratio formula is:
Remediation cost / Development cost
Which can be restated as: Remediation cost / (Cost to develop 1 line of code * Number of lines of code)
Reference: http://www.azure365.co.in/devops/3PDevOps-4