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Using JIRA For Issue and Project Tracking: Byron Chan

The document discusses using JIRA instead of Bugzilla for issue and project tracking. It notes several usability issues with Bugzilla, including an overwhelming interface and difficulty searching. JIRA is presented as a more user-friendly alternative with customizable tracking of issues, projects, and time. The document outlines how JIRA allows project managers to easily track project status through task boards and integration with source control and IDEs.

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Using JIRA For Issue and Project Tracking: Byron Chan

The document discusses using JIRA instead of Bugzilla for issue and project tracking. It notes several usability issues with Bugzilla, including an overwhelming interface and difficulty searching. JIRA is presented as a more user-friendly alternative with customizable tracking of issues, projects, and time. The document outlines how JIRA allows project managers to easily track project status through task boards and integration with source control and IDEs.

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Using JIRA for Issue

and Project Tracking


Byron Chan

04/08/2020 1
Usability Issues with Bugzilla

 Poor flow
 Overwhelming
 Certain types of
searches hard
(those needed for
defect counts on
weekly status
reports)

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Usability Issues with Bugzilla

 Columns too close to each other


 Hard to differentiate severity and priority

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Tedious Project Management
 Project Manager has to create and update
project plan and progress report weekly
 Hard to know project status – must ask
each team member

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Use JIRA Instead
 Well-known issue and project tracker
 User-friendly interface
 Highly customizable
 Allows plugins for additional functionality
 Downside
 $4000 for academic license (unlimited users)
 Could purchase a $10 license (10 users) for
each team

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JIRA Search

 List of search filters


 Grouped by category
 Easy date searches

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JIRA Search Results

 Fields differentiated
 Icons/colors used
 Fields customizable
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Project Tracking in JIRA
 Put project plan in JIRA as tasks/subtasks
 Team members responsible for updating
 Easy for PM to track

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JIRA Time Tracking

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Many Other Features
 Integrates with source control (Subversion,
CVS, others)
 IDE integration (Eclipse, Netbeans, others)
 Email threading
 Can import from Bugzilla

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References
 JIRA homepage
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/

 Bugzilla homepage
http://www.bugzilla.org/

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Questions?

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