소개
Excellence Gradient is a sophisticated quality-engineering skill that moves beyond binary pass/fail gates, treating software quality as a continuous vector. By calculating a project's 'Excellence Temperature' (τ) across weighted metrics—including code coverage, technical debt, and latency—it provides developers with a clear 'steepest descent' path toward optimization. Grounded in the Airlock Principle, it ensures that validation processes protect value without consuming momentum, making it an essential tool for engineering teams who treat quality as a navigation problem rather than a set of static walls.