JIRA Reporting Gadgets
Nagy, Zsolt (2013)
Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013052310514
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013052310514
Tiivistelmä
JIRA is one of the most popular issue tracking product. It holds high variety of data regarding issues stored in it. Reaching information in this enormous amount of data needs special tools - JIRA provides a few ones: issue navigator, filters, and gadgets. Even though these tools are easy to use for professional JIRA users, reaching information might be challenging for users with less knowledge about the product.
This need was recognized by Landis+Gyr Oy. The company started to develop different internal tools for reaching information stored in JIRA on very easy to use user interfaces. Three gadgets were implemented, two JIRA gadgets and a Windows 7 gadget. Development took three months.
The gadgets were built around Web technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Different libraries were created in order to reach data stored in JIRA. These libraries provide example for using a not well documented service of JIRA: searchrequest-xml.
Each implemented tool increased efficiency of searching in data stored in JIRA. As a direct result of using these gadgets, manager meetings became faster; much less effort had to be spent on searching for specific issues.
This need was recognized by Landis+Gyr Oy. The company started to develop different internal tools for reaching information stored in JIRA on very easy to use user interfaces. Three gadgets were implemented, two JIRA gadgets and a Windows 7 gadget. Development took three months.
The gadgets were built around Web technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Different libraries were created in order to reach data stored in JIRA. These libraries provide example for using a not well documented service of JIRA: searchrequest-xml.
Each implemented tool increased efficiency of searching in data stored in JIRA. As a direct result of using these gadgets, manager meetings became faster; much less effort had to be spent on searching for specific issues.