Jira 7 Development Cookbook - Third Edition
Jira 7 Development Cookbook - Third Edition by Jobin Kuruvilla
English | 30 Sept. 2016 | ASIN: B01BFD2Z3U | 598 Pages | AZW3 | 13.82 MB
English | 30 Sept. 2016 | ASIN: B01BFD2Z3U | 598 Pages | AZW3 | 13.82 MB
Your one-stop resource for mastering extensions and customizations in Jira 7
About This Book
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
Who This Book Is For
If 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.
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 options
Use the REST, SOAP, or XML/RPC interfaces to communicate with JIRA
In Detail
JIRA 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.
JIRA 7.x Development Cookbook is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes on simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers, and learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning across different projects and issues, you’ll find coverage of how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to your 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, SOAP, or XML/RPC interfaces; and work with the JIRA database.