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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

JIRA with Bitbucket and GitHub


JIRA comes with a built-in functionality to connect with Bitbucket and GitHub repositories. Perform these steps to integrate JIRA into Bitbucket and GitHub:

  1. Navigate to JIRA Administration | Add-ons | DVCS Accounts.

  2. On the next screen, click on the Link Bitbucket or GitHub account button:

  3. In the popup that appears, select either Bitbucket or GitHub from the Host drop-down list, enter your username in the Team or User Account text field, and enter OAuth Key and OAuth Secret, both of which you can generate from your Bitbucket or GitHub account. Click on the Add button to continue:

  4. After the configuration is complete, the JIRA instance will list the available repositories:

Once the repositories are listed in the instance, the Git commit messages can include the JIRA issues ID and these files will be displayed in the JIRA view issue Source tab.