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technical debt en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by American computer programmer Ward Cunningham in 1992.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.
   • An important attribute of technical debt is that it grows in an unpredictable, nonlinear fashion. Each bit of technical debt, when added to the pool of existing technical debt, might do significantly more harm than the size of that new debt might imply. 2012, Kenneth S. Rubin, Essential Scrum, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 142:

Forms

Synonyms

code debt · design debt

Translations (5)

sv teknisk skuld (implied cost of additional future work) · cmn 技術負債 /技术负债 (implied cost of additional future work) · ja 技術的負債 (implied cost of additional future work) · cmn 技術債務 /技术债务 (implied cost of additional future work) · cmn 技術債 /技术债 (implied cost of additional future work)