{"id":2858,"date":"2020-04-27T22:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2020-04-27T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:51:42","slug":"introduction-to-jira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/introduction-to-jira\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to JIRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA is an Incident Management Tool and issues tracking tool used for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project Management, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/courses\/qa-online-training-course-details\">testing<\/a>, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bug Tracking, Issue Tracking, and Workflow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA mainly follows three concepts: Project, Issue, and Workflow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The main points regarding JIRA are:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jira_(software)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JIRA<\/a> is an incident management tool that was developed by\u00a0Atlassian Inc., which is an Australian Company.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA can be used with any Operating System, which means it is a platform-independent tool.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA supports multiple languages, such as English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA supports multiple Databases like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA can be integrated with many different tools like Subversion, GIT, Clearcase, Team Foundation Software, Mercury, Concurrent Version System, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following are the points regarding License and Free Trial of JIRA<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA is a commercial tool, and to use JIRA services, a license is required.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA is available only as a Trial version for a limited period.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA provides free license only for academic projects, and a 15-day trial version is available for a person.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Some of the primary uses of JIRA are:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA is used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/about-defect-triage-and-jira-why-do-we-need-to-have-review-meetings\/\">Bug Tracking<\/a>, Issue Tracking, and Change Request Tracking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA can be used to create tickets and track their status in Help desk, Support, and Customer\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA used for Project Management, Task Tracking, and Requirement Management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA is useful in Workflow and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/machine-learning-testing\/\">Process management<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Features of JIRA are:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Features<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Description<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Boards<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA supports Scrum and Kanban boards, which provides an immediate snapshot of the project to the team and helps to track the progress of the project and see the status of the individual tasks.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Business Project Template<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA contains\u00a0<\/span><b>n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0number of business project templates to manage simple tasks as well as complex tasks like workflow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These templates can be customized based on the team and the approach they follow.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Task Details<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tasks can be assigned to the individual, and progress can be tracked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Status of every task, comments, attachment, and their due dates are stored in one place.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Notifications<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An email can also be sent for a particular task using\u00a0<\/span><b>@username<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0to notify the user if something is assigned, any specific comment is there, and feedback is required.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Power Search<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA also supports a search functionality having Basic, Quick, and Advanced features to find answers like due date of the task, when a task was last updated, and what is still needs to finish in a task by the team member.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Reports<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA supports many reports to track the progress of a task over a specific timeframe, deadlines, individual\u2019s contribution, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These reports are easy to understand, and it generates different reports which help in analyzing how the team is going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These reports are easy to configure and display the matrices to the stakeholders.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Scale with Team Growth<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA supports all business teams and all projects irrespective of their size and complexity.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Add-Ons<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA contains more than 100 add-ons to connect with different software so that the work becomes easy.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Multilingual<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA supports more than ten languages, such as English (US, UK, India), French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Russian.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Mobile App<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA is also available as a Mobile Application and is available on Google Play Store and App Store (iTunes) of Apple, which makes it easy to stay connected with the team with notification, comments and project activity.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>JIRA Scheme: <\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A JIRA scheme is a collection of configuration values that are being utilized by one or more JIRA projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JIRA Scheme consists of<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Workflows:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It defines the connection between a workflow and an issue type.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Issue types: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It creates a connection between the project and all the available issue types.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Custom fields: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows you to add new fields in a project.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Screens: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It creates a relation between an issue and a screen. You can choose the screen which you want to show to the user.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Field Configuration<\/strong>: It is used to define the behavior of a field that is whether the field is required, whether a field is visible or hidden and how a field is to be rendered.<\/li>\n<li><b>Notification:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> An email can be sent for a particular task using\u00a0<\/span><b>@username<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0to notify the user if something is assigned, any specific comment is there, and feedback is required.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Permissions: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used to set the permissions for a project<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIRA is an Incident Management Tool and issues tracking tool used for Project Management, all types of testing, Bug Tracking, Issue Tracking, and Workflow. 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