Setting up JIRA for bug tracking

JIRA can be used out-of-the-box for bug tracking. It comes with a default issue type called Bug, along with other issue types. However, you may be required to make certain changes in the default configurations in the future, and it is a good idea to create custom schemes even for bug tracking. Of course, we will copy the default schemes and make changes in the copied configurations.

Issue types

The following are the issue types for bug tracking:

Scheme name

Issue types

Remarks

Default Issue Type Scheme

Improvement

Bug

New Feature

New User Request

Sub-task

There's no need to create new issue types or new schemes here

Workflow

We will use a custom workflow for the Bug issue type; it will be used to store ...

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