Practical JIRA Plugins: Using Jira Effectively: Custom Development (OREILLY AND ASSOCIATE) - Softcover

Doar, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449308279 ISBN 13: 9781449308278

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2011

Synopsis

One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.

This book uses detailed examples to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of JIRA plugins, and serves as an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available.

Use JIRA’s Plugin SDK, and learn several aspects common to all plugins Create your own custom field type, using a JIRA plugin Delve into advanced aspects of custom field plugins, and discover how searching for values in custom fields works Create JIRA plugins to use with workflows, and learn about conditions, validators, and post-functions Store data using the PropertySet interface and the Active Objects plugin Upgrade a plugin and upload it to Atlassian Plugin Exchange (PAC)

About this title

About the Author

Matt Doar runs Consulting Toolsmiths, a software consultancy in Silicon Valley and has extensive experience configuring and customizing JIRA for clients all over the world. He is an Atlassian partner and is part of the wider Atlassian development community. He also wrote "Practical Development Environments", O'Reilly (2005) which described the basics of software tools - version control, build tools, testing, issue trackers, automation. Matt also runs the blog http://jiradev.blogspot.com which has a number of similar tips, trick and examples for practical JIRA development.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449308279
• ISBN 13: 9781449308278
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 114