Quantifies the $2.4 trillion economic impact of poor software quality and identifies open-source supply chain failures as a primary driver of technical debt.
The 2022 Cost of Poor Software Quality report states that software deficiencies cost the U.S. economy $2.41 trillion annually, with accumulated technical debt reaching $1.52 trillion. Supply chain problems, particularly involving open-source components that constitute 75% of modern codebases, are identified as a primary driver of these losses. Finding and fixing bugs remains the single largest expense component in the software development lifecycle, severely impacting developer productivity. The report advocates for a paradigm shift where software quality is treated as a first-class citizen, recommending the mandatory adoption of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to overcome visibility gaps and the use of automated taxonomies to prioritize the reduction of technical debt.
Finding and fixing bugs is the largest single expense component in a software development lifecycle.
Risk Guard identifies technical risks but doesn't calculate the 'Quality Liability' or the projected cost of reworking suboptimal code blocks.
Risk Guard would be better if it estimated the 'Accumulated Technical Debt' in dollars for a given project based on its vulnerability density and structural quality.