JIRA 5.2 Essentials

Patrick Li

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

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.

JIRA 5.2 Essentials

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Table of Contents

JIRA 5.2 Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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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