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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Fidel Castro Armario has been working for Spanish Public Administration (Junta de Andalucía) since 2000 as a Consultant and Software Engineer. During his career, he specialized in business process design, implementation and optimization, and software QA. Since 2008, he is focused on designing and implementing a whole system of processes based on JIRA for IT departments management, IT services outsourcing, and CRM implementation.

He has a passion for designing highly detailed and accurate workflows, with self-explanatory interfaces, which are teamwork-oriented and aimed for work efficiency. He employs for his work a self-developed methodology, enabling implementation of high complexity processes, keeping maintenance and administration cost at low levels.

JIRA Workflow Toolbox plugin is a comprehensive workflow extension developed by Fidel as support for his work and is available at the Atlassian Plugin Exchange site.

Dawid Kowalski is a third year student at Poznań University of Technology in Poland. He is currently employed at Wolters Kluwer as a Software Developer and works on JIRA-related projects. He is ambitious, hard-working, and organized. He is active in the scientific club and works there on optimization problems. He is also the captain of the Imagine Cup 2010 and 2011 semi-finalist team.

Sergey Markovich is currently a co-founder of Plugenta Labs, a company focusing on the development of add-ons to enterprise software and an independent Atlassian JIRA and Confluence contractor.

In the past, a code wizard in several multinational corporations and startups and a Bachelor in Computer Science.

Marcin Zręda specializes in Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. He has many years of experience as a programmer and designer. He is the author of many articles on JIRA and the owner of the http://www.testandtry.com blog. He has implemented JIRA for many departments for more than 600 employees. He is currently directing the department of business analysis for a large international company.