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Mastering JIRA

By : Ravi Sagar
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Mastering JIRA

By: Ravi Sagar

Overview of this book

<p>JIRA is an issue-tracking tool from Atlassian and has gained immense popularity in recent years due to its ease of use and, at the same time, its customization abilities and finely grained control over various functions. JIRA offers functionalities for creating tasks and assigning them to users and many useful add-ons can be added such as JIRA Agile for Agile tracking and Groovy scripts, a powerful tool for administering customizations for customizations.</p> <p>This book explains how to master the key functionalities of JIRA and its customizations and add-ons, and is packed with real-world examples and use cases. You will first learn how to plan JIRA installation. Next, you will be given a brief refresher of fundamental concepts and learn about customizations in detail. Next, this book will take you through add-on development to extend JIRA functionality. Finally, this book will explore best practices and troubleshooting, to help you find out what went wrong and how to fix it.</p>
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Mastering JIRA
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed things that you plan before implementing JIRA in your company, understood how JIRA is intended for use in the future, and how it helps JIRA Administrators to choose the right hardware. We also discussed the JIRA installation in detail and various ways to upgrade it. Finally, we briefly discussed some possible use cases of JIRA.

In the next chapter, we will understand how to search the issues, JIRA comes with a powerful search mechanism that helps users to easily find the information they are looking for. JIRA has a query language called JQL (JIRA Query Language), which is used for advanced searching. We will also discuss how to save your search queries as filters, which can be referred to again in the future.