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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By : Gareth Cantrell
Book Image

Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By: Gareth Cantrell

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you’ll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you’ve become familiar with the techniques, you’ll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you’ll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
4
Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Synchronizing issues and Git commits

In the normal course of writing software, developers will normally move a story or task to an In Progress state, do the actual work of writing the code, commit the changes to a source repository such as Bitbucket or GitHub, and then switch back to Jira to move the story or task to the next status in the workflow.

All of this manual work requires unnecessary context switching, and because the process requires the developer to remember to switch between the various tools, it is very likely that sometimes issues are not updated, which makes it harder to track actual progress on the project.

Jira has, for some time, had the ability to integrate with tools such as Bitbucket and GitHub by allowing administrators to configure the underlying Jira workflows with triggers on various transitions.

While this approach does allow for automation of the process and frees up the developer from having to manually update their task statuses, it is limited...