Technical Debt Assessment Scorecard

Rate your codebase across 10 critical dimensions. Get a benchmarked score, priority recommendations, and an estimated debt percentage you can feed into the main calculator.

Takes about 5 minutes. No signup required. Based on McKinsey Tech Debt Score and Code Climate assessment frameworks, adapted for self-assessment.

Code Complexity

Cyclomatic complexity, nesting depth, function length

Test Coverage

Unit, integration, and e2e test coverage across critical paths

Dependency Health

Freshness of libraries, known vulnerabilities, upgrade backlog

Documentation Quality

API docs, architecture decisions (ADRs), onboarding guides

Deployment Pipeline

CI/CD reliability, deployment frequency, rollback capability

Incident Rate

Production incidents per month, MTTR, repeat incident rate

Onboarding Time

Weeks for a new engineer to submit their first meaningful PR

Architectural Clarity

Separation of concerns, service boundaries, clear ownership

Team Confidence

Willingness to refactor, fear of making changes, morale

Debt Tracking

Is debt documented, prioritized, scheduled for remediation?

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