What you'll learn
- Create and deploy your own JIRA plugins on the Atlassian Marketplace
- Extend the default functionality provided by the latest version of JIRA to meet customer project requirements
- Manipulate essential workflows programmatically with ease
- Create new custom reports that provide insights about JIRA issues and objects
- Extend existing reports to show important data and statistics
- Build useful gadgets in JIRA and enable them on a user's dashboard
Requirements
- Familiarity with software project management and basic computer operations is assumed.
Description
Jira is an issue and project-tracking application, and one of the most popular software development tools utilized by Agile teams. Jira 8 comes with performance improvements to meet the demands of ever-growing enterprise teams. This one-stop resource will get you started creating (and working with) Jira plugins and customizations. We will be using Jira 8 throughout this tutorial.
You’ll begin your journey by learning to develop and deploy plugins and then modify them to suit your needs. You will learn to customize the look and feel of your Jira UI, and then perform a detailed configuration of Jira Issues for administrators. Then you’ll learn to create and manage custom fields in JIRA efficiently, and operate with workflows by learning to manipulate them programmatically. Finally, we cover how to build useful gadgets and prepare reports.
By the end, you will have built a solid foundation in Jira and will be equipped to use it efficiently to improve your team’s productivity.
About the Author
Afsana Atar is an accomplished test engineer with over 10 years' extensive experience in software testing. Her recent book Hands-on Test Management with JIRA was rated the #1 best new software testing book in 2019 by BookAuthority .org. Her expertise has been honed and deployed in a variety of domains, including digital advertising, education, healthcare, and financial sectors (including banking, insurance, and trading). She has worked for various organizations including Google, IBM, Principal Financial Group, and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Currently, she works for Susquehanna International Group, a financial trading firm.
Afsana is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), an Agile scrum practitioner, and part of the scrum alliance community. She has managed and worked on projects worth over a million dollars in various capacities, ranging from Quality Assurance Engineer to QA Manager. She believes in sharing her experiences with the testing community to help foster greater learning and innovation.
Who this course is for:
- If you are a JIRA developer, administrator, or project manager and are keen to fully explore JIRA's exciting capabilities, then this course will be your perfect companion.
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