JIRA

JIRA Menu Options

This is a System Dashboard of JIRA software. Various menu options present in JIRA software are:

o Home

o Dashboards

o Projects

o Issues

o Boards

o Create

o Tests menu is added with the integration of “Zephyr for JIRA” add-on with JIRA software.

JIRA menu is packed with an inbuilt Search field, which can be used to search any issues related

to the JIRA projects.

Additional menu options are:

o Application selector: Located to the left end of the JIRA window ( ); is used to select

the different applications that is integrated with JIRA software such as Confluence,

Bitbucket etc.

o Feedback: Located to the left side of JIRA window ( ); is used to provide user feedback

for JIRA software.

o Help: Located to the left side of JIRA window ( ); provides various JIRA online help

links.

o Settings: Located to the right side of the JIRA window ( ); provides various settings

options for JIRA software, applications and administrations.

o Profile: Located to the right end of the JIRA window ( ); is used to view the profile

details of the user. Also has a logout option and few others

Application Navigator

Here we can switch between the various applications that are integrated

along with the JIRA software(Confluence,Bitbucket…). Also we can

configure the application settings from this menu.

Home

This menu direct to the JIRA software home page from the current page.

Dashboards

Dashboard provide an overall status and various statistics of current

project.

Under “View all dashboard”, you can create a new dashboard. New

dashboard can be a blank dashboard or System dashboard.

Blank dashboard can be then edited to match your requirement. System

dashboard creates a dashboard with some pre-defined formats, however you can re-edit the

existing configuration to match your requirements.

We can add the gadgets in the dashboards, which will help in reading the statistics and status of

the project without any much calculation needed.

Projects

From “Project” menu, we can view the current project. Also project

under various types can be also seen. Also we can create a new

project from here.

Issues

This menu deals with handling all the issues created under a project.

You can also search for a particular issue. Recent issues worked on are

displayed here.

Importing issues from various external files such as “CSV” can also be done

from here.

Also we can look for an issue of particular type by applying some filters.

Boards

Has links to the project boards, where the status of issue under current

sprint is updated.

o To do ->In Progress->Done

Tests

This menu is added after the integration of “Zephyr for JIRA” add-on.

All the test case related activities can be performed from here.

Create new test, View the test, Search for a test.

Also test execution can be performed from here. Planning and

designing test cycles, performing execution, applying filters all can be

done from here.

Test metrics and test summary of the test executed can also be

viewed from here.

Traceability of an issue can be done from here.

The API code required to import the test case using external tool is

generated from here.

Create

This menu is used to create a new Issue in the JIRA software. In JIRA everything is

treated as “ISSUE”.

Various issue types are:

o Task

o Sub Tasks

o Epics

o Test

o Bug

o Stories

Settings

Settings ( ) menu redirects to the main settings page of the JIRA software. Where the entire

application and its contents can be controlled and managed per user requirements.

Below is the settings page main menu;

o Applications

o Projects

o Issues Administration

o Add-ons

o System

o User management

o Billing Site administration

o Discover new applications

Administration:

Applications:

Application Access is sued to provide users access to various

application that is integrated with JIRA software.

Projects:

Projects displays all the projects available in JIRA.

Project Categories lets you to create new categories, which can be used to categorize the

projects.

Issues:

All the issue related settings can be accessed from here.

Add-ons:

Any Add-on related settings can be found under here. Add new, manage existing all can be

done from here.

System:

Various system settings can be set from here.

Site administration

User management: manage the users profiles, groups, application access,

password policy from here

Billing: all the billing related details here. Managing application licences

etc.

Discover new applications: search and integrate new applications from

here

Project Window

We can create Versions, Epics from here.

All the newly created issues will be added in to “Backlog” by

default. We can create Sprints here and add the issues to those

sprints.

Active Sprints is managed from here. It takes you to the board to

manage the issue workflow.

To do ->In Progress ->Done

Releases can be used to control and release the versions. We can

also create the versions from here.

Reports are used to give the real time metrics of the complete

project. Numerous reports are available to fetch the required

data from.

Issue deals with all the issue related activities.

Components are used to group the issues. This can be used to

track back issue of certain types.

Tests deals with all the test related activities. Test summary, Test

results and Traceability can be found from here.

Any internal or external links to the resources can be added as

shortcut.

Invite team to help you in your project.

Project settings provides a lot of options to the user to set the project per need.

Project Settings

All the project related settings are performed from here.

Summary of project, deleting the project, Issue types used, user

roles, access permission, notifications to the users.

Integration with development tools like Bitbucket etc. are

performed from here.

Issue Collectors lets you to add a feedback collecting form in your

website.