[geekjock]

> One of the main challenges when dealing with technical debt has been the lack of a way to measure it. To help overcome that problem, CISQ/OMG led the development of an Automated Technical Debt (ATD) measurement standard, which is currently being updated with a new version expected in 2023.

I'm highly skeptical about the tech debt measurement algorithm this article purports to be developing.

Google researchers recently published a paper on their attempts to measure technical debt.

They tested 117 metrics that were proposed as potential indicators.

Regressions were used to test each metric to see whether it could predict an engineer’s perceptions of technical debt.

No single metric or combination of metrics were found to be valid indicators.