Recommended Action for Managing Technical Debt in Azure DevOps

B

You can manage technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps.

Note: Technical debt is the set of problems in a development effort that make forward progress on customer value inefficient. Technical debt saps productivity by making code hard to understand, fragile, time-consuming to change, difficult to validate, and creates unplanned work that blocks progress. Unless they are managed, technical debt can accumulate and hurt the overall quality of the software and the productivity of the development team in the long term

SonarQube an open source platform for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to:

-> Detect Bugs

-> Code Smells

-> Security Vulnerabilities

-> Centralize Quality

-> What's covered in this lab

https://azuredevopslabs.com/labs/vstsextend/sonarqube/

Technical debt refers to the cost of maintaining a codebase that has not been adequately designed, and this can lead to problems with the scalability, maintainability, and reliability of the code. To manage technical debt in your Azure DevOps pipelines, you should recommend integrating SonarQube, a code analysis and management tool.

Option B is the correct answer, as integrating Azure DevOps and SonarQube can help you manage technical debt by enabling you to track code quality metrics and monitor technical debt over time. SonarQube provides a range of code analysis and management tools, including code coverage analysis, code duplication detection, and static code analysis. By integrating SonarQube into your Azure DevOps pipelines, you can automate the analysis of your codebase and receive detailed reports on technical debt, code quality, and other metrics.

In addition to technical debt, SonarQube can also help you manage other aspects of your codebase, such as security vulnerabilities, coding standards, and performance issues. By using SonarQube to manage technical debt, you can identify areas of your codebase that require attention and prioritize your efforts to improve code quality over time.

Option A, configuring post-deployment approvals, is not directly related to managing technical debt. Post-deployment approvals can be used to ensure that changes to your production environment are properly reviewed and approved before they are deployed, but this does not address the underlying issues with technical debt in your codebase.

Option C, integrating Azure DevOps and Azure DevTest Labs, is also not directly related to managing technical debt. Azure DevTest Labs is a tool that enables you to create and manage test environments in Azure, but it does not provide any specific features for managing technical debt in your codebase.