README
Report technical debt directly from VSCode
- Bookmark code while you work
- Report technical debt & code to refactor
- Share knowledge with your teammates
Setting up the extension
Visit stepsize.com/editor-extensions and follow the instructions.
Bookmarking code & reporting debt
Bookmark any code snippet, file, or directory while you work to express your thoughts on it later.
Once you're done with your work, report time lost due to tech debt, or a bug that was caused by tech debt.
Using the extension to be aware of debt
Stepsize annotates code that's been reported so you can share knowledge with your teammates.
Adding Stepsize as a recommended extension
We recommend you add Stepsize as a recommended extension to help your team discover it and easily add it to their workflow – managing tech debt is a team sport!
Add this snippet to your project's .vscode/extensions.json
file:
{
"recommendations": ["stepsize.stepsize"]
}
Get in touch & give us your feedback
We're keen to hear from you to improve the extension!
License
For now this extension is released as proprietary software with an end-user license agreement.
It looks a bit scary, but basically it says "this is free beta software, use it at your own risk". It points out that we collect some telemetry data to improve the extension, and that feedback you give us is our intellectual property.