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JIRA Issues and Issue types

This section in this Jira tutorial for beginners will guide you through JIRA Software Issue and its types.

What is JIRA Issue?

JIRA issue would track bug or issue that underlies the project. Once you have imported project then you can create issues.

Under Issues, you will find other useful features like

• Issue Types

• Workflow’s

• Screens

• Fields

• Issue Attributes

Now in this Jira Agile tutorial, let us see JIRA Issue in detail

Jira Issue Types

Issue Type displays all types of items that can be created and tracked via Jira testing tool. JIRA Issues are classified under various forms like new feature, sub-task, bug, etc. as shown in the screen shot.

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There are two types of Issue types schemes in Jira project management tool, one is

• Default Issue Type Scheme: In default issue type scheme all newly created issues will be added automatically to this scheme

• Agile Scrum Issue Type Scheme: Issues and project associated with Agile Scrum will use this scheme

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Apart from these two issue type schemes, you can also add schemes manually as per requirement, for example we have created IT & Support scheme, for these we will drag and drop the issue types from the Available Issue type to Issue type for current scheme as shown in the screen shot below

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Jira Issue Attributes

Issue Attributes encompasses

• Statuses

• Resolutions

• Priorities

Statuses: Different statuses are used to indicate the progress of a project like To do, InProgress, Open, Closed, ReOpened, and Resolved. Likewise, you have resolutions and priorities, in resolution it again tells about the progress of issue like Fixed, Won’t fix, Duplicate, Incomplete, Cannot reproduce, Done also you can set the priorities of the issue whether an issue is critical, major, minor, blocker and Trivial.

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