Jira Concepts - Issues
Jira tracks issues, which can be bugs, feature requests, or any other tasks you want to track.
Each issue has a variety of associated information including:
- the issue type
- a summary
- a description of the issue
- the project which the issue belongs to
- components within a project which are associated with this issue
- versions of the project which are affected by this issue
- versions of the project which will resolve the issue
- the environment in which it occurs
- a priority for being fixed
- an assigned developer to work on the task
- a reporter - the user who entered the issue into the system
- the current status of the issue
- a full history log of all field changes that have occurred
- a comment trail added by users
- if the issue is resolved - the resolution
Issue Types
Jira can be used to track many different types of issues. The currently defined issue types are listed below. In addition, you can add more in the administration section.
For Regular Issues
- Story
- A user story. Created by JIRA Software - do not edit or delete.
- User interface design
- Visual design of the user interface
- Technical design
- Designing architecture and thinking about how stuff should be done
- Research
- Research in order to understand a problem area better and to discover what options exist for solving it
- Idea
- Bug
- A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product.
- Task
- A task that needs to be done.
- Epic
- A big user story that needs to be broken down. Created by JIRA Software - do not edit or delete.
For Sub-Task Issues
- Sub-task
Priority Levels
An issue has a priority level which indicates its importance. The currently defined priorities are listed below. In addition, you can add more priority levels in the administration section.
- Highest
- This problem will block progress.
- High
- Serious problem that could block progress.
- Medium
- Has the potential to affect progress.
- Low
- Minor problem or easily worked around.
- Lowest
- Trivial problem with little or no impact on progress.
Statuses
Each issue has a status, which indicates the stage of the issue. In the default workflow, issues start as being Open, progressing to In Progress, Resolved and then Closed. Other workflows may have other status transitions.
- Open
- The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.
- In Progress
- This issue is being actively worked on at the moment by the assignee.
- Reopened
- This issue was once resolved, but the resolution was deemed incorrect. From here issues are either marked assigned or resolved.
- Resolved
- A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed.
- Closed
- The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are closed can be reopened.
- Building
- Source code has been committed, and JIRA is waiting for the code to be built before moving to the next status.
- Build Broken
- The source code committed for this issue has possibly broken the build.
- Selected for development
- Done
- Waiting for support
- This was auto-generated by JIRA Service Desk during workflow import
- Waiting for customer
- This was auto-generated by JIRA Service Desk during workflow import
- UX + Code review
- This status is managed internally by JIRA Software
- Needs Code Review
- This status is managed internally by JIRA Software
- Waiting Upstream
- This status is managed internally by JIRA Software
- Deployed to Dev
- This status is managed internally by JIRA Software
- test
- In Design
- Ready for development
- Needs deploy
- UX review
- Backlog
- Design Review
- Needs UX review
- Deployed to production
- Needs Review
- To Do
- Review
- This status is managed internally by Jira Software
- Verified
- This status is managed internally by Jira Software
- Awaits Info
- This status is managed internally by Jira Software
- Blocked
- Issue is blocked, because it's pending external actions
- To Do
- In Progress
- In review
- Deployed to PROD
- Ready for PROD
- Deployed to DEV
- READY FOR DEV
Resolutions
An issue can be resolved in many ways, only one of them being "Fixed". The defined resolutions are listed below. You can add more in the administration section.
- Done
- Work has been completed on this issue.
- Won't Do
- This issue won't be actioned.
- Duplicate
- The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue.
- Cannot Reproduce
- All attempts at reproducing this issue failed, or not enough information was available to reproduce the issue. Reading the code produces no clues as to why this behavior would occur. If more information appears later, please reopen the issue.