JIRA I Hear Ya!

August 6, 2008

I finally get to use JIRA, an online tool where you manage workflow, create issues and projects. It’s where you put change requests, feature requests and bugs. With a little integration, you can manage your source code, build it, test it, review it and document it. Pretty neat stuff!

Think of it as an online wiki combined with a Bugzilla ticket system for the entire project team. Go to your JIRA site to view project schedules, status, and overall issues and owners! This took is also built to work with version control, confluence (enterprise wiki),

JIRA’s powerful plugin subsystem gives you the flexibility to customize and extend JIRA while ensuring compatibility with future versions. Create your own:

* Reports and Portlets: add new ways to view and summarise data within JIRA, including data from external systems
* Workflow elements: extend JIRA’s workflow functionality
* Listeners: trigger programmatic actions (e.g. SMS or Instant Message alerts) in response to system events
* Services: schedule tasks to run periodically (e.g. automated backup, checking a POP email account for messages)

From a development standpoint, you can integrate JIRA with other Atlassian products to:

* View your source and diffs
* Link to code reviews and documentation
* Know which issues relate to each build

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