Chapter 4. Customizing JIRA for Test Management

In this chapter, we will configure and customize JIRA for test management, which we also briefly discussed in Chapter 1, Planning Your JIRA Installation, but we will discuss it in detail here. The best thing about JIRA is its customizations. Out of the box, JIRA can be used for bug tracking, agile-based projects, or just simple issue tracking but every organization has its own processes and different software models. In this chapter, we will discuss a specific use case of test management that will cover most of the aspects of JIRA customizations. We will start by gathering all the requirements. Then, we will implement those customizations in our JIRA instance. You will learn how to create new issue types to store test campaigns and test cases. Workflow customizations will also be discussed in detail. We will also modify the permission scheme to limit the project visibility. Learning these customizations will help you to understand...