قارن الطرق

	قياس الدَّين التقني	مقاييس تعقيد البرمجيات
المجال	هندسة البرمجيات	هندسة البرمجيات
العائلة	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سنة النشأة	1992	1976
صاحب الطريقة	Ward Cunningham	Thomas J. McCabe
النوع	quantitative assessment	quantitative measurement
المصدر التأسيسي	Cunningham, W. (1992). The WyCash Portfolio Management System. OOPSLA 92 Experience Report.	McCabe, T. J. (1976). A complexity measure. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2(4), 308–320.
الأسماء البديلة	debt metrics, code health scoring, maintenance burden assessment	code complexity analysis, complexity measurement
ذات صلة	4	4
الملخص	Technical debt represents accumulated shortcuts, deferred maintenance, and design compromises that incur future costs through slower development, higher defect rates, and deployment difficulty. Introduced by Ward Cunningham (1992), technical debt measurement quantifies these burdens using metrics like code complexity, duplication, test coverage gaps, and maintainability indices. Organizations use debt measurement to balance immediate delivery with long-term sustainability.	Software complexity metrics quantify the structural and operational difficulty of code through numerical measurements. Introduced by Thomas McCabe in 1976, cyclomatic complexity became the foundational approach. These metrics assess maintainability, testability, and defect risk, enabling teams to identify problematic code regions and guide refactoring efforts.