Book description
Learn how to track bugs and issues, and manage your software development projects with JIRA
- Learn how to set up JIRA for software development
- Effectively manage and handle software bugs and issues
- Includes updated JIRA content as well as coverage of the popular GreenHopper plugin
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.
Table of contents
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JIRA 5.2 Essentials
- Table of Contents
- JIRA 5.2 Essentials
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with JIRA
- 2. Project Management
- 3. Issue Management
- 4. Field Management
- 5. Screen Management
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6. Workflows and Business Processes
- Mapping business processes
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Understanding workflows
- Managing workflows
- Creating a workflow
- Editing a workflow
- Publishing a draft
- Steps and issue statuses
- Transitions
- Configuring a transition
- Using the workflow designer
- Deleting a workflow
- Copying a workflow
- Importing/exporting a workflow
- Using the JIRA workflow sharing plugin
- Using other workflow plugins
- Workflow schemes
- The Help Desk project
- Summary
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7. E-mails and Notifications
- JIRA and e-mail
- Mail servers
- Working with outgoing mails
- Mail queues
- Manually sending e-mails
- Events
- Notifications
- The notification scheme
- Troubleshooting notifications
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Incoming e-mails
- Adding an incoming mail server
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Mail handlers
- Creating a new issue or adding a comment to an existing issue
- Adding a comment with the entire e-mail body
- Adding a comment from the non-quoted e-mail body
- Creating a new issue from each e-mail message
- Adding a comment before a specified marker or separator in the e-mail body
- Adding a mail handler
- Editing and deleting a mail handler
- The Help Desk project
- Summary
- 8. Securing JIRA
- 9. Searching, Reporting, and Analysis
- 10. General Administration
- 11. Advanced Features
- Index
Product information
- Title: JIRA 5.2 Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782179993
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