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JIRA 5.2 Essentials

You're reading from   JIRA 5.2 Essentials Learn how to track bugs and issues, and manage your software development projects with JIRA

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782179993
Length 396 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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JIRA 5.2 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with JIRA 2. Project Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Issue Management 4. Field Management 5. Screen Management 6. Workflows and Business Processes 7. E-mails and Notifications 8. Securing JIRA 9. Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 10. General Administration 11. Advanced Features Index

Understanding workflows


Workflow is what JIRA uses to model business processes. It is a flow of states (steps ) that issues go through one by one with paths between them (transitions). All issues in JIRA are based on their issue type and the project they are in, and they have a workflow applied. Issues move through workflows from one step (for example, Open) to another (for example, Closed). For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as the life cycle of issues. This life cycle is shown in the following diagram:

The preceding diagram shows a very simple workflow in JIRA. The rectangles represent the steps and the arrows represent transitions that link steps together. As you can see, this looks a lot like a normal flow chart depicting the flow of a process.

Issues in JIRA, starting from when they are created, go through a series of steps identified as issue statuses , such as In Progress and Closed. These movements are often triggered by user interactions. For example, when a user clicks...

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