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AZ-400 · Question #159
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…
The correct answer is D. the percentage of overall time spent on rework. 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 /…
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Question
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?
Options
- Athe number of code modules in an application
- Bthe number of unit test failures
- Cthe percentage of unit test failures
- Dthe percentage of overall time spent on rework
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A22% (5)
- B13% (3)
- C4% (1)
- D61% (14)
Explanation
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
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