https://github.com/smartbear/bumbailiff
Keeps your technical debt under control.
https://github.com/smartbear/bumbailiff
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Keeps your technical debt under control.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/smartbear/bumbailiff
- Owner: SmartBear
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-11-26T17:26:06.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-22T15:28:58.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-19T07:05:11.996Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 14.6 KB
- Stars: 12
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Bumbailiff
Keep your technical debt under control.
Check out our [blog post](https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/todo-or-not-todo/) to learn more about the concept behind this tool. Bumbailiff works on any git repository.
## Installation
There are several ways of installing and running bumbailiff.
### Node.js / NPM
If you have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) and [NPM](https://docs.npmjs.com/about-npm) installed, you can use [`npx`](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npx) to execute bumbailiff:
npx bumbailiff
You can add bumbailiff to your Node.js project:
npm install --save-dev bumbailiff
Or alternatively:
yarn add --dev bumbailiff
### Manual download
Download and decompress the archive of this repository in the directory of your choice:
curl -LO https://github.com/SmartBear/bumbailiff/archive/main.zip
unzip main.zip
Add the location of the `bumbailiff-main/src` dir to your `$PATH`.
## Usage
bumbailiff 10
This will check that you git repository does not contain more than 10 days of accumulated TODO-days. To do so, bumbailiff will query your git repository and search for all the TODOs it can find, compute the age of each one and print out the sum.
The maximum debt age is optional and defaults to 14.
## Set up on your project
After installing bumbailiff, you might want to set up a pre-push hook in your repository to prevent pushing if the tech debt limit has been reached:
echo "#\!/usr/bin/env bash\nbumbailiff" >> .git/hooks/pre-push && chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-push
## Other development practice tools
At Cucumber and Smartbear, we also use other tools that make our software development practices as a (remote) mob more healthy:
- [Architecture Decision Records tools](https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools): keep track of the decisions your team makes;
- [Retro tools](https://github.com/tooky/retro-tools): log your team retrospective outcomes.
## Credits
This project is based off the [original work](https://gist.github.com/aslakhellesoy/de419d6ded6249e8a68c05d296314bf2) of [Aslak Hellesøy](https://github.com/aslakhellesoy). Some of the bash work around bumbailiff was also inspired by [Steve Tooke](https://github.com/tooky/)'s [retro-tools](https://github.com/tooky/retro-tools) who was himself inspired by [Nat Pryce](https://github.com/npryce)'s work.