JIRA SOFTWARE

                           JIRA SOFTWARE

Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management.The product name comes from the second syllable of the Japanese word pronounced as Gojira, which is Japanese for Godzilla. The name originated from a nickname Atlassian developers used to refer to Bugzilla, which was previously used internally for bug-tracking.According to Atlassian, Jira is used for issue tracking and project management by over 180,000 customers in 190 countries. Some of the organizations that have used Jira at some point in time for bug-tracking and project management include Fedora Commons, and the Apache Software Foundation, which uses both Jira and Bugzilla. Jira includes tools allowing migration from competitor Bugzilla

 

Jira is offered in four packages:

Jira Work Management is intended as generic project management.

Jira Software includes the base software, including agile project management features 

Jira Service Management is intended for use by IT operations or business service desks.

Jira Align is intended for strategic product and portfolio management

Jira is written in Java and uses the Pico inversion of control container, Apache OFBiz entity engine, and WebWork 1 technology stack. For remote procedure calls , Jira has REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC interfaces. Jira integrates with source control programs such as Clearcase, Concurrent Versions System , Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion, and Team Foundation Server. It ships with various translations including English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

Jira implements the Networked Help Desk API for sharing customer support tickets with other issue tracking systems 

In April 2010, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Jira led to the compromise of two Apache Software Foundation servers. The Jira password database was also compromised. The database contained unsalted password hashes, which are vulnerable to rainbow attacks, dictionary lookups and cracking tools. Apache advised users to change their passwords. Atlassian themselves were also targeted as part of the same attack and admitted that a legacy database with passwords stored in plain text had been compromised.

When launched in 2002, Jira was purely issue tracking software, targeted at software developers. The app was later adopted by non-IT organizations as a project management tool. The process sped up after the launch of Atlassian Marketplace in 2012, which allowed third-party developers to offer project management plugins for Jira. BigPicture, Advanced Roadmaps , Structure, Tempo Planner and ActivityTimeline are major project management plugins for Jira.

Jira is a commercial software product that can be licensed for running on-premises or available as a hosted application.

Atlassian provides Jira for free to open source projects meeting certain criteria, and to organizations that are non-academic, non-commercial, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, and secular. For academic and commercial customers, the full source code is available under a developer source license.

What is Jira used for?

Jira Software is part of a family of products designed to help teams of all types manage work. Originally, Jira was designed as a bug and issue tracker. But today, Jira has evolved into a powerful work management tool for all kinds of use cases, from requirements and test case management to agile software development. 

In this guide, you'll learn which features and functionalities of Jira can help your team with your unique needs. Explore how to start your project off right with pre-configured templates in Jira.

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What are the features of Jira Software?

Jira Software is based on the Jira Core platform. In that way, on Jira Software, you'll be provided with all the Jira Core functionality but you'll be provided with additional agile features.

Jira Software supports any agile project management methodology for software development, such as:

The ability to plan agile work from project backlog to sprints

Fully customizable Kanban and Scrum boards

The ability to estimate time for issues as you prioritize your backlog

Robust reporting features, ranging from burndown charts to velocity measurements

Customizable workflows to fit your frameworksThe ability to plan agile work from project backlog to sprints.