FAQs for Technical Debt Tracker in Bitbucket Server

The developers can stay in the code while solving the common problem of tracking technical debt. Upon commit, tech insights scan the repository for the comments like TODO and FIXME and provide a list.

Crowdsource your prioritization decisions by allowing users to vote the tasks that they want to be completed. This feature is available with a valid license and you can toggle it on or off per repository.

If lightweight task management is not enough, link with Jira to allow users to create Jira issues for listed tasks.

1. Click  on the top left corner.
2. Select the Jira Project, in which the current issue needs to be created.
   
3. Select a value from the Issue Types list:
   
4. Provide the Summary and Description:
   
5. Click Create issue. Jira issue is created for you.

The Administrators can see the scan the repository button. Scanning the repository can take a long time and be resource-intensive. Non-administrator users cannot see the scan the repository button, but rather a message to contact the administrator.

Even though this app is configured by the Administrator, it can also be used by the Developers.

Allow voting and Create Jira issues are the two features that are available with evaluation and commercial license.

The initial scan has to be done manually to find historical items. After that, it's done on each git push.

Add new labels features is available from 1.5 version onwards. To add a new label to the Standard TODO and FIXME labels by simply going to global administration and supply the labels. Labels are constrained to A-Z and 1-9. No special characters are allowed.