Are Bugs Tech Debt

Strictly speaking, bugs are not part of technical debt, if they do not slow down further software development (changing things, adding new features, etc). They are software defects

What constitutes technical debt?

When it comes to software development, technical debt is the idea that certain necessary work gets delayed during the development of a software project in order to hit a deliverable or deadline. Technical debt is the coding you must do tomorrow because you took a shortcut in order to deliver the software today.

What causes technical debt?

“Technical debt occurs when IT teams need to forgo certain development work – [such as] writing clean code, writing concise documentation, or building clean data sources – to hit a particular business deadline,” says Scott Ambler, VP and chief scientist of disciplined agile at Project Management Institute.