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Inside JIRA Bug Processes
AND SOME JIRA BEST PRACTICES

Eric Dalgliesh

•

JIRA Team Lead

•

Atlassian

•

@ericdalgliesh
Overview
• JIRA’s triage process
• JIRA’s warranty bug process
• How we prioritize bugs
• JIRA’s QA processes
• JIRA’s workflow
Bugmaster: a single
developer responsible for
the management of bugs
A bug
• An error producing an unintended effect
A bug
• An error producing an unintended effect
• After JIRA is released
A bug
• An error producing an unintended effect
• After JIRA is released
• Generally excluding poor design
A bug
• An error producing an unintended effect
• After JIRA is released
• Generally excluding poor design
• Or anything else we want to call a bug
Not quite features; not
quite a bugs: fugs.
Triage
• Every day
• All new and updated bugs
• Focus on rapid response
Classification
• Components
• The area of the code base affected
• Labels
• The people who care about the issue
• Metadata
Public tracker
• Conversations
• Customer feedback
• Set expectations
“

”

This is affecting us too.
“

When will this be fixed?

”
“

If you fix this I will make all

”

your dreams come true.
Warranty bugs
• Faster to fix
• Raises new feature quality
• Developers responsible for quality
• Gives bugfix budget back to feature teams
Prioritization
• Keep our goals in
mind

Severe
customer
impact

Purchase and
Upgrade

Creeping
normalcy

High support
costs

Affecting
many
customers
Alternating theme work
• Retain some time for urgent work
• Work on themes to tackle hard problems

JIRA 5.2.x

JIRA 6.0.x
LDAP

High impact
&
urgent bugs

JIRA 6.1.x
Search
Board of Eric
Work allocation
• Match fix-rate to demand
• Fix in as few versions as possible
• Balance urgency and efficiency
JIRA Agile
Swimlanes
Cumulative flow
JIRA Workflow
Feature workflow - an aside
JIRA Workflow
Summary
• Triage daily
• Know why you’re fixing bugs
• Quality should belong to the developers
• Bug and story processes can differ
• Make it easy to give feedback
• Listen to that feedback
Thank you!
Eric Dalgliesh

•

JIRA Team Lead

•

Atlassian

•

@ericdalgliesh
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