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Mastering JIRA

By : Ravi Sagar
Book Image

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

Setting up the Atlassian plugin SDK


Atlassian provides a Software Development Kit, also known as an SDK, to develop add-ons. The SDK needs to be installed on your machine before starting the development. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Any of these operating systems can be used to develop add-ons. However, in this chapter, the instructions will focus only on the Windows platform. There are no specific recommended hardware requirements to install the Atlassian SDK; however, to get a decent performance, install it on a machine, which has a core i5 processor and 8 GB of RAM.

Setting up the SDK prerequisites on a Windows system

The SDK requires the Java environment to be configured on your machine. In Chapter 1, Planning Your JIRA Installation, we discussed how to install the JDK. We had earlier installed the JDK at C:\java.

Verifying the JDK installation...