What is Jira?

Jira is a software tool, developed by a company named Atlassian in Australia, which provides an effective way to organize and manage your projects. It also provides capabilities to meet Agile project management needs.

Jira is like a container consisting of different types of Jira issues categorized under Jira projects. Using Jira, you can design, manage, and customize various types of tasks, workflows, and reports, and streamline the project management process. It helps to streamline the process of creating and managing project artifacts and provides a shared platform for project stakeholders to monitor project progress.

Jira boosts collaboration and productivity by doing the following:

• Reducing the effort spent tracking customer requirements manually
• Connecting team activities
• Providing different attributes that allow a team to divide requirements into contextual views, such as epics, components, issue types, tasks, sub tasks, and so on
• Generating different types of reports required by different user roles within team
• Interoperability with different plugins to help to take Jira to the next level and customize it as per their needs, such as the plugins for automation testing, manual test management, reporting, and so on