Support Team-specific Backlogs (Area Paths) when creating ADO work items

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Describe the problem

If there are multiple Azure DevOps Teams defined in the same Project and it has multiple Backlogs, CxFlow (in the webhooks mode) currently does not allow creating workitems in a Backlog that belongs to a specific Team.

For example, if an ADO project 'SCA' has multiple teams/area paths (ex. 'Resolver', 'UI', 'XYZ'), and each team has a corresponding Backlog, CxFlow users cannot specify which Backlog to create the WorkItems under.

Proposed solution

The alt-fields configuration parameter is available for the command-line execution mode via the parameter '--alt-fields'. In the webhooks mode, however, this configuration element is not available to be set by way of configuration.
A possible solution is to support the 'alt-fields' (custom fields) configuration element in ADO config-as-code. This can be used to specify the ADO "System.AreaPath" attribute value - which can then be used by the ADOIssueTracker to create the CreateWorkItemAttr object and add it to the body before calling the Create Work Item ADO REST API.

Please treat that proposed solution with a grain of salt - it's just a thought :)

Additional details

cx-flow/src/main/java/com/checkmarx/flow/custom/ADOIssueTracker.java

Line 251 in 64ae217

for (Map.Entry<String, String> map : request.getAltFields().entrySet()) {