JIRA Essentials - Third Edition

Patrick Li

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784398125
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Cyber Security

JIRA Essentials Third Edition

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Table of Contents

JIRA Essentials Third Edition

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

Downloading the color images of this book

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 and configuring JIRA

Installing Java

Installing MySQL

Preparing MySQL for JIRA

Installing JIRA

Obtaining and installing JIRA

Installing MySQL driver

The JIRA setup wizard

Starting and stopping JIRA

Post-installation configurations

Increasing JIRA's memory

Changing JIRA's port number and context path

Configuring HTTPS

Summary

2. Project Management

The JIRA hierarchy

Project category

Project

Issue

Field

Project permissions

Creating projects

Changing the project key format

Importing data into JIRA

Importing data through CSV

Project user interfaces

Project Browser

The Summary tab

The Issues tab

The Road Map tab

The Change Log tab

The Versions and Components tab

The Source and Reviews tab

Project Administration

The Summary tab

The Components tab

Creating components

Managing components

Component lead and default assignee

The Versions tab

Creating versions

Managing versions

Other tabs

The Help Desk project

Creating a new project category

Creating a new project

Assigning a project to a category

Creating new components

Putting it together

Summary

3. Issue Management

Understanding issues

JIRA issue summary

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 users

Sharing issues with other users

Issue linking

Enabling issue linking

Creating link types

Linking issues with other issues

Linking issues with remote contents

Issue cloning

Time tracking

Configuring 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

Issue priorities

The help desk project

Adding new issue types

Creating an issue type scheme

Putting it together

Summary

4. Field Management

Built-in fields

Custom fields

Custom field types

Standard fields

Advanced 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 new screen

Editing/deleting a screen

Copying a screen

Configuring screens

Adding a field to a screen

Deleting a field from a screen

Using screen tabs

Adding a tab to a screen

Editing/deleting a tab

Working with screen schemes

Adding a screen scheme

Editing/deleting a screen scheme

Copying a screen scheme

Configuring a screen scheme

Associating screens to issue operations

Editing/deleting an association

Issue type screen scheme

Adding an issue type screen scheme

Editing/deleting an issue type screen scheme

Copying an issue type screen scheme

Configuring an issue type screen scheme

Associating issue types to screen schemes

Editing/deleting an association

Associating an issu...