JIRA Development Cookbook
Third Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 30. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
598 pages
978-1-78588-561-7 (ISBN)
Description
Your one-stop resource for mastering extensions and customizations in JIRA 7+
Key Features
Explore the new features of JIRA 7 and best practices for agile development and integration with development tools
Customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI to match your specific user needs
Create seamless reports that make sense of your data through easy-to-use techniques
Book DescriptionJIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever.
JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
What you will learn
[*] Create and deploy your own JIRA plugins
[*] Manipulate workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system
[*] Create custom reports that show statistics for particular people, projects, versions, or other fields within issues
[*] Simplify reporting by writing your own JIRA gadgets, which can be added into a user s dashboard
[*] Master database handling by extending and retrieving custom field details from the database
[*] Deal with custom fields on an issue and program custom field option
Who this book is forIf you are a JIRA developer or administrator, or a project manager who wants to fully exploit the exciting capabilities of JIRA, then this is the perfect book for you.
Key Features
Explore the new features of JIRA 7 and best practices for agile development and integration with development tools
Customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI to match your specific user needs
Create seamless reports that make sense of your data through easy-to-use techniques
Book DescriptionJIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever.
JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
What you will learn
[*] Create and deploy your own JIRA plugins
[*] Manipulate workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system
[*] Create custom reports that show statistics for particular people, projects, versions, or other fields within issues
[*] Simplify reporting by writing your own JIRA gadgets, which can be added into a user s dashboard
[*] Master database handling by extending and retrieving custom field details from the database
[*] Deal with custom fields on an issue and program custom field option
Who this book is forIf you are a JIRA developer or administrator, or a project manager who wants to fully exploit the exciting capabilities of JIRA, then this is the perfect book for you.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1015 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78588-561-7 (9781785885617)
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01/2025
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Person
Jobin Kuruvilla is an Atlassian Consultant with experience in customizing JIRA and writing JIRA plugins for various customers. He is currently working with Go2Group as an Atlassian platinum expert, and is involved in managing Atlassian products for big enterprises as well as small starter license installations.
Jobin is the author of JIRA Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing, released in 2011, which is a well-received book in the JIRA community. He also runs a website named J-Tricks (http://www.j-tricks.com), using which he shares numerous tutorials to help the developer community, who he believes have contributed immensely to his personal development. It is indeed those tutorials that sowed the first seeds of JIRA Development Cookbook.
Jobin started his career as a Java/J2EE developer in one of the biggest IT companies in India. After spending his initial years in the SOA world, he got hooked into this amazing product called JIRA, which he came across during the evaluation of a number of third-party tools. Soon, Jobin realized the power of JIRA, and pledged to spread the word. He has been doing it ever since, and he reckons there is a long way to go!
Jobin is the author of JIRA Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing, released in 2011, which is a well-received book in the JIRA community. He also runs a website named J-Tricks (http://www.j-tricks.com), using which he shares numerous tutorials to help the developer community, who he believes have contributed immensely to his personal development. It is indeed those tutorials that sowed the first seeds of JIRA Development Cookbook.
Jobin started his career as a Java/J2EE developer in one of the biggest IT companies in India. After spending his initial years in the SOA world, he got hooked into this amazing product called JIRA, which he came across during the evaluation of a number of third-party tools. Soon, Jobin realized the power of JIRA, and pledged to spread the word. He has been doing it ever since, and he reckons there is a long way to go!
Content
Table of Contents
Plugin Development Process
Understanding the Plugin Framework
Working with Custom Fields
Programming Workflows
Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA
The Power of JIRA Searching
Programming Issues
Customizing the UI
Remote Access to JIRA
Dealing with the JIRA Database
Useful Recipes
Plugin Development Process
Understanding the Plugin Framework
Working with Custom Fields
Programming Workflows
Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA
The Power of JIRA Searching
Programming Issues
Customizing the UI
Remote Access to JIRA
Dealing with the JIRA Database
Useful Recipes