1. Jira Reporting in
GoogleSheets
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12+ years general working experience in IT/QA (40+ projects)
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•QA Consultant / QA Manager at Ciklum Interactive
•Load Testing Manager
•Automated Testing Manager
•Co-owner at www.qaexperts.pro
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Skype: vladimir.primakov
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Some Words About Me
Volodymyr Prymakov (Vladimir Primakov)
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• Introduction – 2 min
• Main part – 15 min
• Questions (3 min)
Presentation Plan
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Jira’s Reporting weak areas:
1. No all types of graphs and visualizations are available. e.g.
stacked graphs
2. Lack of time-trend-based graphs
3. Have to edit queries (no way to use variables in queries)
4. No possibility to add text and comments to graphs.
Note: Available for Confluence
5. No template graphs and reports
Note: Available in Confluence
6. No convenient way to print
Note: Available in Confluence
7. Costly visualization plugins
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Why Google Sheets?
•Free
•Web-based
•Inherit the power of Excel
•Great sharing possibilities
•Macros support (javascript)
•Stability
•Flexibility
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Technology
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JIRA REST API
(HTTPS/JSON)

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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Technology
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• Activate Jira API calls in jira:
Allow Remote API Calls' should be turned ON under Jira’s Administration
> General Configuration.panel
• Add a custom menu and function to google sheet for configuring
Jira’s parameters:
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Functions
Base functions:
1) jiraConfigure()
- Setting up access to a jira instance
2) UrlFetchApp.fetch(url,headers)
-low level function for sending requests via http(s) protocol
3) getJiraDataForAPI(path)
- Sending any GET requests to a specific instance of jira
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Functions
Supplementary functions:
4) getJiraSearchResults(searchQueue, fieldsToShow)
- Getting issue Jira Search results in JSON
5) parseJsonObjIntoArray(obj, loopPath, searchFor)
- Parse JSON search results into 1 dimensional array
according to the parameters specified
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Functions
Main functions:
6) getJiraTotalForSearchResults(searchQueue)
- Getting a number of issues
found for the specified Jira search query
e.g.: =getJiraTotalForSearchResults(“project in (‘ProjectName')
and issuetype in (bug)”)
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Functions
Main functions:
7) getJiraIssueContent(issueID)
- Getting issue content in JSON
to understand its JSON structure
e.g.: =getJiraIssueContent(“KOK-234”)
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Functions
Main functions:
7) getJiraIssueFieldsValues(searchQueue, searchFor,
showOnlySuchFields)
- Getting 1 dimentional array of issues fields values
returned for the specified Jira search query
e.g.: =getJiraIssueFieldsValues( "project in (KOK) and issuetype in (bug)";
"fields.status.name";"status")
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Power of Cells’ Referencing
and Concatenation
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Power of “was in on” query type in jira
project in (RON) and status was in ("Ready to Test") on '2015-04-11'
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Google Reporting in Google Sheets. How?
Error Handling
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QA Reporting in Googlesheets
1. Quality Report
2. Time trends
3. Pivots
4. Audit reports
DEMO
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EXAMPLE 1:
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EXAMPLE 2:
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EXAMPLE 3:
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EXAMPLE 4:
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Google Sheets Limitations
1. Custom functions execution time in sheet - not more than 30 sec
2. Custom function execution time in script - 5 min
3. UrlFetchApp.fetch(url,options) execution time - not more than 60
sec.
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