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🧪 Maintenance Simulation

Allocate a software team's sprint capacity between new features, refactoring and bug-fixing, and watch technical debt, velocity and the bug backlog evolve on a live 3D codebase-city visualization.

Engineering & Materials2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted
development-maintenance-simulation ↗ Open standalone

Software maintenance is a resource-allocation problem: every sprint, a team splits its finite capacity between shipping new features, refactoring existing code and fixing bugs, and the ratio it picks compounds over time. This simulator models that feedback loop directly — technical debt grows fastest when feature work dominates and debt is already high, team velocity decays as debt accumulates (diminishing returns, not a cliff), and the open-bug backlog is fed by debt-driven bug spawn and drained by dedicated bug-fixing effort. A live 3D "codebase city" of 64 modules renders per-module debt as building height and bug density as colour, so the consequences of an allocation choice are visible in real time rather than just in a number. Drag the three sprint-capacity sliders to any balance, watch a few dozen simulated sprints play out, and see whether the team converges to a sustainable equilibrium or spirals into a maintenance death march.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation demonstrates the importance of ongoing maintenance in any system. Users will manage resources and address issues to ensure optimal performance and longevity.

Maintenance Modeling

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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