Category Report: Code Management

Naturally, the majority of Code Management instances take place on Bitbucket–55% as we can see in Figure 2. This is in stark contrast to the marketplace as a whole where only 3% of instances take place on Bitbucket.

The top paid Bitbucket Code Management apps are Post Webhooks for Bitbucket and Yet Another Commit Checker.

Post Webhooks allows you to trigger notifications, builds, alerts, and more in a 3rd party system like Jenkins or Azure DevOps. Bitbucket administrators can filter by users and events to only post events when required. Post Webhooks is simple to set up and use and is generally considered to be the most reliable web hook on the marketplace–hence its position as the market leader.

Yet Another Commit Checker shows itself to be not just another commit checker but the leading commit checker in the marketplace. Its ease of use and setup combined with its reliability mean YACC is one of the best tools out there for ensuring developers are following best practices. YACC helps users maintain a high quality commit history through requiring commit messages to contain valid Jira issues, requiring committer name and email to match Bitbucket user, requiring commit messages to match regex, and validating branch names. Furthermore, repository, project, and global configuration combined with customizable error messages make YACC a flexible tools to suit the customized needs of all users.

Interestingly, paid Code Management apps on Bitbucket have not, in general, had a great year in terms of their growth. A potential reason for this could be that paid code management apps are losing out at the expense of many of the free options out there.

The fastest growing free Code Management app is Control Freak Hook for Bitbucket which has grown by over 10% this year. Control Freak markets itself as “Similar to YACC” and boasts many of the same features. Although it’s not quite as polished as Yet Another Commit Checker and without the same level of support, is an awesome choice for those looking for a less costly option.

Much like the paid Bitbucket Code Management apps on the Marketplace, Jira apps have also seen a relatively subdued 2021. The most popular app is Subversion ALM which gives you bi-directional impact & traceability between Jira issues and Subversion commits.

Figure 5: Top Paid Jira Code Management Apps

One area of Code Management that has been seeing some growth this year is Confluence apps. Open API Documentation for Confluence is the largest Code Management app on Confluence app and has seen solid growth of nearly 3% this year. Open API Documentation allows you to generate interactive and visually pleasing documentation embedded into Confluence pages.

Figure 6: Top Paid Confluence Code Management Apps

Despite the impressive year that Confluence Code Management apps have had, the generally subdued growth this year can be explained partially by the incredible growth that Code Management integrations have experienced.

GitHub for Jira is by a long way the largest app on the Marketplace with its 65,000 instances being 25,000 greater than the next closest app draw.io. Furthermore, GitHub for Jira and GitLab for Jira Cloud have been the two fastest growing apps on the entire Marketplace this year by absolute instance growth and have percentage growths of 33% and 94% respectively. These cloud based code management integrations are exploding on the marketplace as developers seek to ensure all of their favored tools are linked together.

However, this doesn’t seem to be happening to the detriment of Bitbucket as a whole which has seen growth of 3% this year.

It is also worth noting that although 3rd party Code Management addons may not have been booming this year, Atlassian’s launch of Open DevOps and Compass show that Atlassian is committed to meaningful innovation and growth in this space.

Figure 7: Top Code Management Integrations