Mastering JIRA 7 - Second Edition

Setting up JIRA for requirement management

Let's take a look at the configuration for using JIRA requirement management; we will store issues that are related to requirements. This will also ensure that expectations of the project are captured and later verified during testing.

Issue types

The following table lists the different issue types for requirement management:

Scheme name	Issue types	Remarks
Requirements—Issue Type Scheme	Requirements Documentation Change Request Improvement Bug New Feature New User Request Sub-task	Create the issue types that are not available

Workflow

We will use a custom workflow for the Requirements issue type; it will be used to store the project requirements; for the rest of the issue types, the default JIRA ...