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Jira 8 Essentials

Jira 8 Essentials

By : Patrick Li
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Jira 8 Essentials

Jira 8 Essentials

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira enables effective bug tracking for your software and mobile applications and provides tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. Jira Essentials is a comprehensive guide, now updated to Jira 8 to include enhanced features such as updates to Scrum and Kanban UI, additional search capabilities, and changes to Jira Service Desk. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new Jira 8 instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, business processes, and much more. You'll then understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book delves into the different issues that can arise in your projects. You’ll explore fields, including custom fields, and learn to use them for more effective data collection. You’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. The book also covers workflows and business processes, and guides you in setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers. Toward the end, you’ll study Jira's security model and Jira Service Desk, which allows you to run Jira as a support portal. By the end of this Jira book, you will be able to implement Jira 8 in your projects with ease.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Jira 8
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Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
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Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

To get the most out of this book

The installation package used in this book is the Windows Installer standalone distribution, which you can get directly from Atlassian at https:/​/​www.​atlassian.​com/software/​jira/​download for JIRA Software and https:/​/​www.​atlassian.​com/​software/jira/​service-​desk/​download for JIRA Service Desk.

You will also need additional software, including the Java SDK, which you can get from http://​www.​oracle.​com/​technetwork/​java/​javase/​downloads/​index.​html, and MySQL, which you can get from http:/​/​dev.​mysql.​com/​downloads.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You should see both the New Employee and Termination issue types."

A block of code is set as follows:

<Resource name="mail/JiraMailServer" 
  auth="Container" 
  type="javax.mail.Session" 

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<security-constraint> 
  <web-resource-collection> 
    <web-resource-name>all-except-attachments</web-resource-name> 
    <url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern> 
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

  create database jiradb character set utf8;

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "There is a Create another option beside the Create button."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.

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