Jira Interview Questions and Answers

Some of the roles of JIRA administrator are:-

• Should be able to install and setup JIRA software in any of the licensed servers.
• Should be able to setup authentication and an authorization system (like LDAP).
• Should be able to do the customization of workflows, screens, fields, permissions, issue type schemes and notifications.
• The administrator could be able to use JIRA at it’s best, uploading Test-cases using plugins, bulk upload of issues.
• Should be able to maintain the complete JIRA instance in a very efficient way so that JIRA instance can be able to integrate with the other tools in Atlassian

• JIRA is a multi-lingual tool in − English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.
• JIRA supports Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL server in the backend
• JIRA can do integration with many tools like Subversion, Team Foundation Software, Concurrent Version System, etc.
• JIRA supports both the Scrum and the Kanban boards.
• JIRA supports numerous business templates
• JIRA sends the email notification to the user for a specific task
• JIRA supports business team and project without depending on the size and complexity.
• JIRA supports numerous add-on ( almost 100)
• JIRA is also available as mobile applications

JIRA is fundamentally an project management tool which provides the platform for tracking issues, for finding bugs and also for managing the progress of the project.

Why it is used?

• JIRA is able to track the progress of the project from time to time.
• The work-flow can be easily customized as per the requirement of the user.
• JIRA application can track issues, history of the work done on issues, when, what and by whom.
• JIRA can run on any operating system because it is platform independent.
• JIRA is very helpful to improve the ability of the development team and testing team to perform a task in a better way.

Creating and Adding of an Issue type:-

• Step 1:-Go to setting and click on issues.
• Step 2:-Now select Issue Types to see all the issue types which are used by user’s JIRA applications.
• Step 3:-Then select Add Issue Type and write the details:

Name — Describe the new issue type

Description — Write when this new issue type should be used

Type — specify the new issue type either a Standard issue type or a Sub-Task issue type.

• Step 4:- Finally, select Add to create a new issue type. When a user wants a new issue type, then the user can either create a new standard issue type or a sub-task issue type. To create a sub-task issue type user has to enable the sub-tasks.

Workflow can be activated only if the user associates the inactive workflow with a workflow scheme which can associate with the project.

Here are steps to enable the workflow:-

• Step 1:-Select the JIRA icon > JIRA settings > Issues.
• Step 2:-Under WORKFLOWS, click on the Workflow schemes to get a list of all the active and inactive projects.
• Step 3:- Now create a workflow scheme or edit an active workflow scheme.
• Step 4:- Now add the workflow to the scheme.
• Step 5:- Now associate the workflow scheme with the project.

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The first page of the JIRA application after the login is a ‘Dashboard.’ Gadgets are used to design the JIRA dashboard. Gadgets display the progress of the project. Some of the must-have gadgets are Assigned to Me, Calendar , Created vs. Resolved, Issues in Progress, JIRA Road Map, Sprint Burndown, Sprint Health, Pie chart.

Components are fundamentally a sub-sections of a project. Elements are used to put together the issues logically inside a project into smaller parts. When a user creates a project at time user can also create components like UI, DB, Server, Bug. As a result, it becomes convenient to trace the issues.

The component can be created by the following steps:-

• Step 1:- First login into JIRA as a project administrator.
• Step 2:-Choose Settings > Projects > and then click on the name of a project. The Project Summary page will come on the screen
• Step 3:-Choose the Components which is there on the left sidebar. The Components page will appear which will show the existing components of the project.
• Step 4:-To create a new component in the project type the component name and click on the add button. The new Component will add in the list. It is better to add the information in other fields Lead:- to assign a lead, Description:-function of the component and the default assignee.

KANBAN boards are primarily created for those projects where the team’s prime focus is on visualizing the workflow and also managing the ongoing projects. KANBAN supports in executing projects as they were planned. The essential feature of KANBAN board is that it is found in the work mode because the projects are not executed as they are planned. Kanban board is created in JIRA through the following steps:-

• Step 1:- First do log in to the JIRA application and go to the dashboard.
• Step 2:- Click on the Project drop down and then select the option ‘Create Project.
• Step 3:- Select the option Kanban Software development’ and then click on Next button.
• Step 4:- Enter all the essential details and then click on the Create button.
• Step 5:- Kanban board will be created.

This one of the most asked JIRA interview questions