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Mastering JIRA 7

You're reading from   Mastering JIRA 7 Become an expert at using JIRA 7 through this one-stop guide!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466860
Length 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ravi Sagar Ravi Sagar
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Creating issue types for test campaigns and test cases


Out of the box, the JIRA software comes with a few standard Issue types, namely Bug, Epic, Story, and Task, and one subtask named Sub-task. We need to create two issue types:

  • Requirement: Issue types

  • Test campaign: This will be the standard issue type

  • Test case: This will be the subtask

Let's take a look at how to create these issue types:

  1. Go to Administration | Issues | Issue types and click on the Add Issue Type button in the top-right corner:

  2. On the next screen, enter Name as Test Campaign, enter Description as This issue type will be used as a collection of individual test cases., which is a good practice, and select Standard Issue Type as the Type:

  3. Perform the same procedure to create a test case subtask. The only exception here is to select Sub-Task Issue Type as the Type.

Creating new issue type schemes

Issue type schemes define which issue types will be available to a particular project. Out of the box, JIRA comes with the Default...

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