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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

Creating Issue Types for test campaign and test cases


Out of the box, JIRA comes with four standard Issue Types, namely, Bug, Improvement, New Feature, and Task and one sub-task named Sub-task. We need to create two Issue Types.

Requirement: Issue Types
Test Campaign: This will be the standard Issue Type
Test Case: This will be the subtask
  1. Go to Administration | Issues | Issue Types and click on the Add Issue Type button in the top-right corner:

  2. In the following screenshot, enter Name as Test Campaign, enter Description as This issue type will be used as a collection of individual test cases., which is good practice, and select Type as Standard Issue Type:

  3. Perform the same procedure to create a test case. The only exception here is to select Type as Sub-Task Issue Type.

Creating new Issue Type Schemes

Issue Type Schemes define which Issue Types will be available to a particular project. Out of the box, JIRA comes with Default Issue Type Scheme. By default, this is applied to all the newly created...