How is Effort for an Issue calculated?

SonarQube Server / Community Build
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Since Technical Debt is summation of Efforts of all Code Smells, how is Effort for a particular Issue is calculated?

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It varies by rule. You might be interested in the Evaluation of the remediation cost section of the Adding Coding Rules > Coding Rule Guidelines documentation.

It’s not exactly scientific, but it’s meant to give a rough estimate based on the experience of the individual/team developing the rule.

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What is the exact file in github source code https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/tree/branch-6.7 which provides this kind of mapping of a potential issue to the remediation effort associated with it based on SQALE and further the remediation cost calculated on it

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That information is spread across… probably 27 different repositories (for each language analyzer!)

You’re probably better off checking the Rules tab of a SonarQube instance which has information about the remediation cost per rule

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Thanks for the help.
Can you share some 2-3 repositories you are talking about so we can get better understanding of the mapping of issue to the cost.

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A real SonarQube instance is going to be the user friendly option: but here is one example from the sonar-java repository (sorry I don’t have time to find more!)

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These mapping files are a part of plugins like sonar-java-plugin-4.15.0.12310.jar
or some other plugin