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Aug
One of the tricky problems while building software is finding the constant balance between releasing new features and dealing with technical debt. One common form of technical debt is bug surface area. Simply put, it's the phenomena where as you develop new features the number of bugs increases at a much faster rate. Why should you care? A larger bug surface area can lead to increased maintenance costs, reduced user satisfaction, and longer development cycles. These problems happen because in any non-trivial project features interact with each other, which creates more opportunities for bugs to creep in. Moreover, if new…