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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466860

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Project Management

Author (1):

Ravi Sagar

Preface

1. Planning Your JIRA Installation FREE CHAPTER

2. Searching in JIRA

3. Reporting – Using Charts to Visualize the Data

4. Customizing JIRA for Test Management

5. Understanding Zephyr and its Features

6. Sample Implementation of Use Cases

7. User Management, Groups, and Project Roles

8. Configuring JIRA User Directories to Connect with LDAP, Crowd, and JIRA User Server

9. JIRA Add-On Development and Leveraging the REST API

10. Importing and Exporting Data in JIRA and Migrating Configuration

11. Working with Agile Boards in JIRA Software

12. JIRA Administration with ScriptRunner and the CLI Add-on

13. Database Access

14. Customizing Look, Feel, and Behavior

15. Implementing JIRA Service Desk

16. Integrating JIRA with Common Atlassian Applications and Other Tools

17. JIRA Best Practices

18. Troubleshooting JIRA

JIRA core concepts

Let's take a look at the architecture of JIRA; it will help you to understand the core concepts:

Project Categories: When there are too many projects in JIRA, it becomes important to segregate them into various categories. JIRA will let you create several categories that could represent the business units, clients, or teams in your company.
Projects: A JIRA project is a collection of issues. Your team can use a JIRA project to coordinate the development of a product, track a project, manage a help desk, and so on, depending on your requirements.
Components: Components are subsections of a project. They are used to group issues within a project to smaller parts.
Versions: Versions are a point-in-time for a project. They help you schedule and organize your releases.
Issue Types: JIRA will let you create several issue types that are different from each other in terms of what kind of information they store. JIRA comes with default issue types, such as bug, task, and subtask, but you can create more issue types that can follow their own workflow as well as have different sets of fields.
Sub-Tasks: Issue types are of two types—standard and subtasks, which are children of a standard task. For instance, you can have test campaign as a standard issue type and test cases as subtasks.