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From QuickBuild 3, a two-way solution is provided to integrate with Atlassian JIRA. The integration features:
- Hyperlink the JIRA keys in commit messages to corresponding JIRA pages
- Generate an issues report from commit messages
- Progress/update the issues from commit messages
- Release a version of a project in JIRA and update the fixed versions field of issues with status fixed or closed
- Create an issue to JIRA based on a customized step condition
- View SCM changes for each issue
- View related builds for each issue
- View related builds for each project
This page will describe how to integrate JIRA in QuickBuild.
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Supported JIRA version should be JIRA 3.13.3 or higher. |
Simple Integration
To enable the integration:
1. Enable 'Access remote API calls' in JIRA
2. Configure JIRA server in your configuration setting tab
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You can associate multiple JIRA projects with one QuickBuild configuration.
After doing these, the issues keys mentioned in commit messages will be hyperlinked:
and an issues report tab will be displayed in Build tab:
you can also find all related issues from a specified version and view the changes for an issue:
After configured the JIRA server in the configuration settings, below steps are available to add in your build workflow:
- Update Issue Step
- Release Version Step
- Create Issue Step
Update Issues Via Commit Command
To update issues from the commit messages, Update JIRA Issue step should be added to your build workflow. And when QuickBuild find any commit commands in the commit message, QuickBuild will execute these commands to update or progress the issues listed in the commands.
NOTE:
- To update issues, the user defined in JIRA server should has the proper rights or you will be not able to update the issues.
- This step should be defined after your checkout step.
- QuickBuild will update all issues which are requested from the commit comments from previous successful build.
- If issue updated manually after committed, this issue will not be updated then.
- Only issues which belong to the projects defined in JIRA server will be updated.
- The user defined in JIRA server should have full permissions to do the related workflow transitions.
Customize Commit Command
The commit command has two types:
- Progress Command which is used to progress an issue in the JIRA workflow
- Update Command which is used to update an issue only and will not lead to a workflow transition and use update as the command name.
The progress commands can be customized in the Update Jira Issue step based on your JIRA workflow definition.
Command Attributes
A commit command has below attributes, each attribute relates to the field of an issue:
Attribute | Description |
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summary | The summary of an issue |
description | The description of an issue |
type | The issue type |
priority | The issue priority |
reporter | The reporter of an issue |
assignee | The assignee of an issue |
environment | The environment field of an issue |
affectsVersions | The affects versions field of an issue |
fixVersions | The fixed versions field of an issue |
comment | Add a comment to an issue |
time | Records the time tracking information of an issue |
JIRA custom fields are also supported, for custom fields, below format can be used:
customfield_10000 or just 10000
here, 10000 is the field id of a custom field.
Below we will give some example commit messages to illustrate the commit commands:
- In below commit message, QuickBuild will resolve the issues TST-1 and TST-2 and add comment The issue has been fixed to both issues.
1. Modified Foo.java to fix TST-1, TST-2 --comment The issue has been fixed 2. Some dummy comments ...
- In below commit message, QuickBuild will add 2d 3h to the worklog and add comment Some comment to issue TST-1. The value of time 2d 3h should be used the format defined in JIRA time tracking.
Update TST-1 --time 2d 3h --comment Some comment
Please note, to use time attribute time tracking must be enabled in your JIRA server. Please check with your JIRA Studio administrator, if you cannot record time tracking information against issues.
- In below commit message, the value of custom field 10000 will be updated to for custom field1 and custom field 10001
Update TST-1 --customfield_10000 for custom field1 --10001 for custom field2
will be updated to for custom field2.
You can define common attributes in the Update Jira Issue step so that when updating issues, the attributes can be applied to all of the issues. When an attribute is specified both in commit command and Extra Attributes, the value in commit command will be used.
Release QuickBuild Version to JIRA
QuickBuild can release a version to a JIRA project by adding Release Version Step. The step will also update the Fix Version/s field of issues found in the commit messages automatically so you can easily manage the versions in JIRA.
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As the Version property in Release Version Step is scriptable, that means you have a very flexible way to manage the JIRA version. For example, you can:
Manage JIRA version from QuickBuild
To manage JIRA version from QuickBuild, the Version field is ${build.getVersion()} which will release the build version to JIRA and if this version is not existed in JIRA, QuickBuild will create it automatically.
Manage JIRA version from JIRA
You can manage JIRA version from JIRA directly, the Version field is ${current.getNextUnreleasedVersion()}.
Create Issue From QuickBuild
You may create an issue from QuickBuild by adding a Create Issue Step. A common case is that when build failed, create an issue so that we can track the build from JIRA.
Trouble Shooting
- Q: I can't add comment to a closed issue, why?
A: You need modify the file $JIRA_HOME/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-workflow.xml, find 'Closed' step and change the value of 'jira.issue.editable' to true.
- Q: The commit command failed with error: Workflow step 'Start Progress' is not valid for issue: XXX-123, but I can progress this issue from Jira GUI.
A: The user defined in JIRA server should have the permissions to do all of the workflow actions which defined in workflow command transition. If you encountered the problems above, please login to Jira with that user and check the 'Available Workflow Actions' section.