JIRA 5.2 Essentials: Learn How to Track Bugs and Issues, and Manage Your Software Development Projects With Jira - Softcover

Li, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782179992 ISBN 13: 9781782179993

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Learn how to track bugs and issues, and manage your software development projects with JIRA

Overview

• 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.

What you will learn from this book

• Design and implement JIRA to work for you and your team.
• Master JIRA issue and project tracking methods.
• Make your data tell a story through powerful data query and information retrieval.
• Get to grips with GreenHopper, Bonfire, and Agile development with JIRA.
• Secure JIRA to protect your data.
• Capture and display data to users by using different types of fields in JIRA.

Approach

JIRA 5.2 Essentials is packed with real-world examples and practical tutorials which will help you become a JIRA expert.

Who this book is written for

If you want to get started with JIRA, then this book is made for you. Only basic computer skills and project or issue management knowledge is required. The book will provide the rest. This book would also be of interest to experienced JIRA users who wish to improve their workflow and master the new features of JIRA 5.2.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick Li

Patrick Li is the co-founder and senior engineer of AppFusions. AppFusions is the leading Atlassian partner, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, Box, SugarCRM, and more.

He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over five years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform, and providing expert consulting services. He is one of the top contributors to the Atlassian community, providing answers and suggestions on the Atlassian user forum.

He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up, and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782179992
• ISBN 13: 9781782179993
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 373