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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Remote time tracking


Time tracking in JIRA is a great feature that allows users to track the time they spent on a particular issue. It lets users log work as and when they spend time on an issue and JIRA will keep track of the original estimated time, actual time spent, and the remaining time. It also lets users adjust the remaining time to be spent on the issue, if needed!

While JIRA has a great user interface to let users log work, there are times-when integrating with third-party products-it is necessary to log work using remote APIs. In this recipe, we will see logging work using the REST API.

Getting ready...

Create a JIRA REST client as mentioned in the Writing Java client for REST API recipe. Make sure that time tracking is enabled on the JIRA instance by checking at Administration | System | Issue Features | Time Tracking.

How to do it...

There are different ways to log work on an issue depending on what we need to do with the remaining estimate on the issue, the visibility of the worklog...