JIRA 5.2 Essentials
eBook - ePub

JIRA 5.2 Essentials

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

JIRA 5.2 Essentials

About this book

In Detail

Atlassian's JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to aid speed of development and quality of code. This book will show you how to develop software more efficiently by planning, designing, and customizing your own JIRA implementation.

JIRA is a popular issue tracking product designed for better bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. JIRA 5.2 Essentials provides a comprehensive guide covering everything you will need to plan, set up, design, customize, and manage your software development projects efficiently and to a professional standard.

In this practical book you will learn how to design and implement JIRA for project and issue tracking. You will jump into the installation and design of JIRA before going through the required techniques to effectively manage issues that threaten your software development project.

Each chapter builds on the last, taking you through important concepts and techniques such as business processes and workflows, setting up e-mail notifications, field and screen management, and reporting. Using these techniques you will be able to make JIRA adapt to your organization and save time and energy by developing software more efficiently.

Newly improved and updated to JIRA 5.2 this book also includes a section about GreenHopper and Agile development with JIRA.

Approach

JIRA 5.2 Essentials is packed with real-world examples and practical tutorials which will help you become a JIRA expert.

Who this book is for

If you want to get started with JIRA, then this book is made for you. Only basic computer skills and project or issue management knowledge is required. The book will provide the rest. This book would also be of interest to experienced JIRA users who wish to improve their workflow and master the new features of JIRA 5.2.

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Information

Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781782179993
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Project Management
Index
Computer Science

JIRA 5.2 Essentials

Table of Contents

JIRA 5.2 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Instant Updates on New Packt Books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with JIRA
The JIRA architecture
High-level architecture
Web browsers
Application services
Data storage
The JIRA installation directory
The JIRA home directory
System requirements
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Operating systems
Java platforms
Databases
Application servers
Installation options
Installing JIRA
Installing Java
Installing MySQL
Prepare MySQL for JIRA
Installing JIRA
Obtaining and installing JIRA
Configuring jira-application.properties
The JIRA setup wizard
Configuring JIRA as a service
Post-installation configurations
Configuring the application server
Configuring HTTPS
Installing the database drivers
Managing the database setup
Summary
2. Project Management
The JIRA hierarchy
Project category
Project
Issue
Field
Project permissions
JIRA Administration
Creating projects
Project interfaces
Project administration
The Summary tab
The Components tab
Creating components
Managing components
Component lead and default assignee
The Versions tab
Creating versions
Managing versions
The Issue Collectors tab
Other tabs
Project Browser
The project category revisited
Browsing a project
The Summary tab
The Issues tab
The Road Map tab
The Change Log tab
The Versions/Components tab
The Source/Reviews tab
The help desk project
Creating a new project category
Creating a new project
Assigning a project to a category
Creating new components
Creating new versions
Putting it together
Summary
3. Issue Management
Understanding issues
What does an issue look like?
Working with issues
Creating an issue
Editing an issue
Deleting an issue
Moving an issue between projects
Casting a vote on an issue
Receiving notifications on an issue
Assigning issues to others
Issue linking
Enabling issue linking
Creating link types
Linking other issues
Linking remote contents
Issue cloning
Time tracking
Enabling time tracking
Specifying original estimates
Logging work
Issues and comments
Adding comments
Managing your comments
Permalinking a comment
Attachments
Enabling attachments in JIRA
Attaching files
Attaching screenshots
Issue types and subtasks
Creating issue types
Deleting issue types
Subtasks
Enabling subtasks
Creating subtasks
Issue type schemes
Creating issue type schemes
The Help Desk project
Creating issue types
Creating an issue type scheme
Putting it together
Summary
4. Field Management
Built-in fields
Custom fields
Custom field types
Simple fields
JIRA specialized fields
Multi-value fields
Searchers
Custom field context
Managing custom fields
Adding a custom field
Editing/deleting a custom field
Configuring a custom field
Adding custom field contexts
Configuring select options
Setting default values
Field configuration
Adding a field configuration
Editing/deleting a field configuration
Copying a field configuration
Managing field configurations
Field description
Field requirement
Field visibility
Field rendering
Screens
Field configuration scheme
Managing field configuration schemes
Adding a field configuration scheme
Editing/deleting a field configuration scheme
Copying a field configuration scheme
Configuring a field configuration scheme
Associating a field configuration scheme with a project
The Help Desk project
Setting up a custom field
Setting up the field configuration
Setting up a field configuration scheme
Putting it together
Summary
5. Screen Management
JIRA and screens
Working with screens
Adding a screen
Editing/deleting a screen
Copying a screen
Configuring screens
Adding a field to a screen
Deleting a field from a screen
Reordering fields on a screen
Using screen tabs
Adding a tab to a screen
Editing/deleting a tab
Reordering tabs
Working with screen schemes
Adding a screen scheme
Editing/deleting a screen scheme
Copying a screen scheme
Configuring a screen scheme
Adding an association
Editing/deleting an association
An issue type screen scheme
Adding an issue type screen scheme
Editing/deleting an issue type screen scheme
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