Using a checklist

When you are creating your rules, you are not always going to remember all the various points we have discussed in this chapter to ensure that your rules follow best practices.

Having a checklist that you can quickly reference can help in ensuring that you have followed both the best practices we have presented in this chapter and any organizational guidance you have prepared.

We have, therefore, put together a basic checklist that you can use as a starting point to create a checklist in the format that suits you best:

• The rule is correctly scoped to only the project or projects that are affected.
• The rule is documented and includes a business case and implementation approach.
• The rule has been exported and stored in a version control system such as GitHub or Bitbucket.
• An appropriate trigger was used, such as Field value changed rather than Issue updated.
• The rule is using the most efficient conditions, such as the Issue fields condition...