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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466860

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Project Management

Author (1):

Ravi Sagar

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Mastering JIRA 7 - Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Planning Your JIRA Installation

2. Searching in JIRA FREE CHAPTER

3. Reporting – Using Charts to Visualize the Data

4. Customizing JIRA for Test Management

5. Understanding Zephyr and its Features

6. Sample Implementation of Use Cases

7. User Management, Groups, and Project Roles

8. Configuring JIRA User Directories to Connect with LDAP, Crowd, and JIRA User Server

9. JIRA Add-On Development and Leveraging the REST API

10. Importing and Exporting Data in JIRA and Migrating Configuration

11. Working with Agile Boards in JIRA Software

12. JIRA Administration with ScriptRunner and the CLI Add-on

13. Database Access

14. Customizing Look, Feel, and Behavior

15. Implementing JIRA Service Desk

16. Integrating JIRA with Common Atlassian Applications and Other Tools

17. JIRA Best Practices

18. Troubleshooting JIRA

Using add-on charts to visualize data

Apart from the standard charts and gadgets that come with JIRA out of the box, there are certain free add-ons that can be installed to have more such useful charts. Let's take a look at these free plugins and the additional features that they offer.

Barcharts for JIRA

Just install this add-on and you will get the option to add a Barchart gadget in your instance. The bar chart that comes with this add-on offers a few additional features which are not available in standard charts.

We will generate a report similar to one we generated earlier in this chapter. We want to generate a 2D report on Issue Type and Status:

As you can see, this is a stacked bar chart. Also, there is a detailed table just following the chart that displays the actual numbers.

Building advanced reports using eazyBI

The default reports that come built-in with JIRA are quite good and useful. These gadgets can be configured to display a variety of statistics based on different fields associated...