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1. Understanding the underlying process

2. Learning the tool itself- features/capabilities/shortcomings etc.

Take the case of JIRA. Think that you are a newbie and know nothing
about it. You have heard about it from various friends, online
references etc. You want to try your hand at it. How can you do
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Ask yourself these questions: What kind of tool is it? Who uses
it?

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2. Project: a collection of issues
3. Workflow: A workflow is simply the series of steps an issue
goes through starting from creation to completion.

Say the issue first gets created, goes to being worked on and when
complete gets closed. The work flow in this case is:

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Once logged in, the dashboard page is displayed (unless otherwise

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 chosen) to the user. The dashboard page gives a snap shot about
the description of the project you belong to; issue summary and the
activity stream (the issues that are assigned to you, the issues that
you created etc).

Tip: When you are trying to create/modify a certain issue under a

project for the first time, it really helps to know about the project
itself.

You can do that by going to the main menu and choosing the Project
name from the Projects drop down.

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 We defined earlier that a project is a collection of issues. Item
number 6 in our list the feature that enables the grouping of the
issues is fulfilled with this concept. Projects have components and
versions under it. . Components are nothing but subgroups within a
project based on common grounds . Also, for the same project,
different versions can be tracked.

Every project has the following main attributes:

1. Name as selected by the administrator.

2. Key- It is an identifier that all the issue names under the
project are going to start with. This value is set during the
creation of a project and cannot be modified later even by an
administrator.
3. Components
4. Versions

For instance, take a web based application; there are 10

requirements that need to be developed. There will be 5 more
features added to it later on. You can choose to create the project
as Test for STH version 1 and Version 2. Version1 with 10
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 requirements, version 2 with 5 new ones.

For version 1 if 5 of the requirements belong to Module 1 and the rest

of them belong to module 2. The module 1 and module 2 can be
created as separate units

Note: Project creation and management in JIRA is an admin task. So

we are not going cover project creation and will continue the
discussion using an already created project.

Taking the details in the above example, I have created a project in

JIRA called Test for STH, the key is TFS. So, if I create a new
issue, the issue identifier will start with TFS and will be TSH-01. We
will see this aspect in the next session when we create issues.

The following is how the Project details are displayed in JIRA:

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 Please note the left hand side navigation.

When I choose the Components option, it displays the two

components within the project:

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 When I choose the versions option, the versions within the project
are displayed

Choose Roadmap option, the version information is displayed along

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project.

Choose the calendar option to view the milestones date wise:

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 At this point, there are no issues created for this project. If there
were, you will be able to see all of them by choosing Issues from
the left navigation menu.

We will learn all about working with issues in JIRA in the next
session. Please free to post your questions and comments
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57 comments

#1 Dahir mohamud

it is nice to know jira thanks anyway

#2 Pravin

Hi,
I click on Download link, its display the Try jira 30 for days free

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 here two options
1) OnDemand
2)Download
so witch version i download
plz help me
Thanks.

#3 Anojan

I have been using JIRA for nearly 18 months :) Your

explanations about the tool are good!

#4 jayashree

awesome job sir!!1

Detailed explanation of JIRA

#5 jayashree

Iam looking for the job ?

can you give some interview question frequently asked?

#6 Swati Seela

@Pravin: Choose the OnDemand version, because it is much

more easier and wont need any installation.

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 #7 Word unusual

This was a fantastic read! I use this at work now! :) Thank you
as always.

#8 S.Dhevi

I am very happy to see Jira on your website. Its very

informative. Looking anxiously for future articles. STH is
providing us so much valuable information selflessly.good going
One more suggestion please from my side, after Jira please
could u also provide some articles on Bugzilla also..Please
Thanks in advance.:-)

#9 Sibu S

Very useful section thanks for choosing JIRA many thanks to

vijay. Waiting for next tutorial

#10 varaprasad

Iam newbie to jira and i learned a few basic steps in this

article..

Thanks
varaprasad

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 #11 Mohan.G

My sincere thanks to u for providing this Valuable JIRA tutorial.

#12 Amandeep Singh

A good start for newbies to start working on a new tool

#13 Jai

Hi ,
during jira installatin got below hard message The HTTP port
8080 you have chosen appears too be in use.
Please choose a different port number. Please help me out to
get resolved.
Regards
Jai

#14 Abhi

I am using Jira for last few months. It is nice tool. Thanks for
the explanation. It is quiet elaborate.

#15 Swati Seela

@Jai: please try using the Ondemand version. You will not need

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 any installation. Let me know how that goes

#16 Jai

@ Swati:
Thanks, Now i am able to proceed.

#17 Sai Bhavana

Hi Vijay,
I have completed payment for the Software testing career
package book today. Wondering when I should receive
it.Thanks!

#18 Vijay

Its been sent to your email address. I hope you will enjoy
reading it.

#19 parveen

hi,

in how many days a manual tester can learn the jira tool.
and if anybody have notes for jira
please share on my email-id
[email protected]

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 #20 Daniel

Its very useful and comprehensive section.

Thanks!

#21 sanoj

you are just awesome sir..good goingyour article is so

informative..thanks.

#22 Ramanachinnathoti

Great article sir, this is very helpful for testing professionals

#23 sandeep singh negi

i our office we are using this JIRA tool but its customized
version. actually we are not able to see these menus as per the
screen.

#24 Jerin

Good article.Keep writing post like this.This was very helpful to

me.

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 #25 Ali

When I click download, system required some information

including payment information. After expiry of 30 day free trail,
Jira will charge me $10/month? Can anybody share me the
experience about charge. Thanks Vijoy!

#26 Jagadish Bisalegowda

Thanks Vijay.
You explain it in very simple manner

#27 Kannan Manoharan

Hello vijay,
Currently im working on project with JIRA. Its been really
helpful for me to understand about it well. Thank you so
much.!!

#28 Sumangala

As i am a beginner to use jira tool, this post is very helpful

#29 John Pereless

Great post and awesome steps on testing aspirants. I wish to

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 Great post and awesome steps on testing aspirants. I wish to
have a reference about this at our blog! We are posting about
software and further SDLC classification as per the modern
software paradigm. Thanks

#30 Rekha

where else would I have found an explanatn thts so easy to

understand. I am an MBA in Finance but keen to start my
career with Manual Testing.And now I think I CANThanks :)

#31 sandhya

Hi,
I am new to JIRA,please can any tell me about the JIRA
architecture and Post function.why we need post fucntions
in JIRA and uses.

Thanks..
sandhya

#32 Sindhu

Hi,

what is the JIRA workflow and please tell me about the screens
in jira.why we are using screens

Thanks.

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 #33 Mayank Solanki

I went through all 6 tutorials and side by side exploring/learning

JIRA UI as well and I must say that these tutorials covered
each and every aspect of learning content and in very detailed
and eloborative mode with mapped screenshots.

#34 Faruque Hossain

Thanks Vijay , i did work on JIRA long time ago and almost
forgot but your tutorial really helped me a lot !
Thanks

#35 Mahaboob sheriff

Can any one give me complete details on how to track

functionality bugs in a real time application.

#36 satish

Hi,

I am unable to download free trial version. Please provide some

link for same.

It would be great help for me.

#37 Sandhya
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 Hi,
I am new to JIRA,please can any tell me about the JIRA
architecture and Post function.why we need post fucntions
in JIRA and uses.

Thanks..
sandhya

#38 lala

i do not understand how to get on demand version & how to

create project & its version. plz can anyone help me!

#39 Mark Smith

In the project creation above you give the key as TFS and then
say the first issue will be STH-01. Why is it not TFS-01?

#40 Gaurav Khurana

Good to see that you have started the tutorials on various

tools.. keep doing the good work

#41 Vani

Its very informative. Thank you

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 #42 santhosh

can anybody have notes for jira

please share on my email-id

[email protected]

#43 Inna

can anybody have notes for jira

please share on my email-id
[email protected]

#44 Neelima

We have just started using JIRA, thanks for the detailed

information to start with. We are looking for Test management
tools supported by JIRA. Wondering if you have any tutorials on
that too? If not that would be a good idea to do one.. :)

#45 brindha

nice article about JIRA.. Plz send more information about testing
tools to [email protected]

#46 Ahmed
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 Jira it nice software for beginners. Thanks

#47 Infotek-Solution

Hiii,

Really informative Blog about jira Software . Nice information i

loved the way you have written.

Thank

#48 Karrl Richardson

Nice article,
for all those asking for help and information the manuals and
user help documents can be viewed/ downloaded free from the
Atlassian Jira website
(https://confluence.atlassian.com/alldoc/atlassian-
documentation-32243719.html)
Atlassian also have a great and friendly user base on:
https://answers.atlassian.com/

The Jira UI and structure has recently been changed in v7.

There are also many plug ins and tools for Jira.

Jira will by most companies be configured to match their

criteria. So it could be difficult to answer some of the question
raised.
I am the Jira admin for our company 200 users and approx 40
projects. Keeps me busy
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 #49 Ramadevi

Thanks for create this article.It very useful for jira beginners

#50 Amjitha Aradaman

Wow..this is the most simplest way an author can deliver the

User end information for beginners about JIRA.

#51 krishna

very good explanation sir

#52 hari

A very good article and very helpful to the begginers.

keep going.
thank you

#53 vaishali

Are there any free defect tracking tools available ? please

suggest.

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 #54 swarna

Hi sir, thank you so much for the article.its very useful for the
beginners. im trying it

#55 Anjana

Hi , Incase of Automation how we can log the defects

#56 sita

i cant understand

#57 Rakesh

Hi,
Greating,
its very good information to learn jira.
thanks.

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