2. What is JIRA
JIRA concepts
Features
Why use JIRA
LIVE Demo
Q&A
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3. What is a Project
› A JIRA project is a collection of issues, and is
defined according to your organization's
requirements
› Each project has a name (e.g. CourseWare)
and a key (e.g. CW). The project key becomes
the first part of that project's issue keys, e.g. CW-
101, CW-102, etc
› A project component is a logical grouping of
issues within a project
› For some types of projects, it is useful to be able
to associate an issue with a particular project
version e.g. 10, 11, 12 useful if affected and fixed
version is different
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4. An issue could represent
› Bug
A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product.
› an Epic
A big user story that needs to be broken down.
› Improvement
An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task.
› New Feature
A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed.
› Story
A user story
› Task
A task that needs to be done.
For Sub-Task Issues
Sub-task
The sub-task of the issue
Technical task
A technical task.
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5. Priority Levels - An issue has a priority level
which indicates its importance.
› Blocker
Blocks development and/or testing work, production
could not run.
› Critical
Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
› Major
Major loss of function.
› Minor
Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround
is present.
› Trivial
Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text.
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6. Each issue has a status, which indicates the stage of the issue.
Depending on the default workflow, issues start as being Open,
progressing to In Progress, Resolved and then Closed. Other workflows
may have other status transitions.
› Open
The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.
› In Progress
This issue is being actively worked on at the moment by the assignee.
› Reopened
This issue was once resolved, but the resolution was deemed incorrect. From here
issues are either marked assigned or resolved.
› Resolved
A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues
are either reopened, or are closed.
› Closed
The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are closed can
be reopened.
› Building
Source code has been committed, and JIRA is waiting for the code to be built before
moving to the next status.
› Build Broken
The source code committed for this issue has possibly broken the build.
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8. An issue can be resolved in many ways, only one of them
being "Fixed". The defined resolutions are listed below.
› Fixed
A fix for this issue is checked into the tree and tested.
› Won't Fix
The problem described is an issue which will never be fixed.
› Duplicate
The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue.
› Incomplete
The problem is not completely described.
› Cannot Reproduce
All attempts at reproducing this issue failed, or not enough
information was available to reproduce the issue. Reading the
code produces no clues as to why this behavior would occur. If
more information appears later, please reopen the issue.
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10. Supports online teams
Cloud on demand hosting – low
maintenance costs
IDE integration Visual studio, eclipse
Configurable Email notifications
My dashboard – your issues at a glance
Customizable fields , workflows, and
reports
Time tracking
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11. Create Test Sessions as per Testing
requirements
› Log issues during testing
Additional information contains Test
Steps
Create bugs found during testing
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12. Index TFS Terminology Bonfire JIRA
1 Story New Feature
2 Bug Issue
3 Test Case Test session
4 Requirement New Feature
5 CR (Change Request) Improvement
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13. Contains the Test Steps.
Test Sessions are Started and Ended
during execution
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14. Specify Priority
Affected versions
Environment
Replication steps in Description
Attach any screenshots
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17. Cloning a Test session to re-run
Test sessions are assigned to a tester for
running the test
Advanced
› Templates and variables can be added to
raise specific type of issues such as an ipad
issue or a content issue where additional
template specific details are entered.
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