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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

Debugging automation rules

There are many reasons why automation rules can, and will, fail. These could be due to underlying configuration changes within Jira, or the rule author may not have anticipated an edge case scenario when planning and implementing the rule.

When rules start failing, it is necessary to understand what caused the rule to fail and to either fix the underlying cause or to adjust the automation rule to take into consideration the changes that caused it to fail.

However, debugging is not only about finding and fixing deficiencies in your automation rules or underlying Jira configurations. We can use the same techniques during planning and developing to ensure that we deliver robust rules that are likely to have a higher success rate.

In this section, we will look at how using the audit log for automation rules can help to identify issues and how we can make use of it when debugging our automation rules.

Firstly, let's take a look at the audit log...