Niche Calculators
Technical Debt Assessment Tools
Quantify technical debt in real dollars across 7 dimensions — total debt, refactoring ROI, legacy migration, bug cost, code complexity, test coverage, and performance. Built on the SQALE method (Software Quality Assessment based on Lifecycle Expectations) and SEI cost models, not vibes.
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Who it's for
- Engineering-leadership board justification for refactoring sprints
- Legacy-modernization business case
- M&A code-debt due-diligence
- Sprint-planning prioritization with cost-of-delay
- Outsourcing / contractor-quality assessment
What you gain
- SQALE-method debt quantification (used by SonarQube + CAST)
- NPV-discounted multi-year refactoring projections
- Risk-adjusted cost-of-delay for prioritization
- Bug-cost decomposition: engineer time + support + churn