freddy_mallet

Four good ideas ! you could have added another point to this ideal list : 5.Number of open bugs in production environment

But applications with good design always have good metrics and unit tests ... The technical debt can't say that an application has a good design but it can say that it has a poor one.

I don't know any spell checker which is able to give you the amount of duplicated code, code coverage by unit tests, ditribution of complexity, ratio of documented api and so forth ;-).