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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

You're reading from   Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532135
Length 158 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Versions and releases

Let's start with versions and releases. In this section, you'll learn what versions and releases are, and how they interact with one another. We'll discuss how to create and manage versions, how to assign work to versions, how to perform a release, and finally, how to view the contents of a release once we've created it.

Versions come from the concept of software. We're all familiar with the major and minor versions of a software (for example, version 2.0 versus version 2.1). These represent a large amount of value, so that's a way to think about it—a version represents a chunk of value that's being deployed. Versions can be released, so once we've determined what's in a version and we've completed it, we can release it, and that version will become a release. They're the same thing, but one is...

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