Jira ( ) is a software product developed by

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that allows

bug tracking Tracking system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system. Many bug tracking systems, such as those used ...

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and agile

project management Project management is the process of supervising the work of a Project team, team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project initiation documentation, project documentation, crea ...

. Jira is used by a large number of clients and users globally for project, time, requirements, task, bug, change, code, test, release, sprint management.

Naming

The product name comes from the second and third syllables of the Japanese word pronounced as ''Gojira'', which is Japanese for

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. The name originated from a nickname Atlassian developers used to refer to

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, which was previously used internally for bug-tracking.

Description

According to Atlassian, Jira is used for issue tracking and project management. Some of the organizations that have used Jira at some point in time for bug-tracking and project management include Fedora Commons, Hibernate, and the

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, which uses both Jira and Bugzilla. Jira includes tools allowing migration from competitor Bugzilla. Jira is offered in three packages: * Jira Software includes the base software, including agile project management features (previously a separate product: Jira Agile). * Jira Service Management is intended for use by IT operations or business service desks. *Jira Align is intended for strategic product and portfolio management. Jira is written in

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and uses the Pico inversion of control container, Apache OFBiz entity engine, and WebWork 1 technology stack. For remote procedure calls (RPCs), Jira has

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, and

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interfaces. Jira integrates with

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programs such as Clearcase,

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(CVS),

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, Perforce,

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, and

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. It ships with various translations including English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Jira implements the Networked Help Desk API for sharing customer support tickets with other issue tracking systems.

License

Jira is a

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product that can be licensed for running on-premises or available as a hosted application. Jira was an open source tool available for anyone to download. Subsequently, the product was made closed-source and Atlassian created a business around this product. Atlassian provides Jira for free to

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projects meeting certain criteria, and to organizations that are non-academic, non-commercial, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, and secular. The full source code is available for its users to modify under a developer source license.

Security

In April 2010, a

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vulnerability in Jira led to the compromise of two

servers. The Jira password database was also compromised. The database contained unsalted password hashes, which are vulnerable to rainbow attacks, dictionary lookups and cracking tools. Apache advised users to change their passwords. Atlassian themselves were also targeted as part of the same attack and admitted that a legacy database with passwords stored in plain text had been compromised.

Evolution

When launched in 2002, Jira was purely issue tracking software, targeted at software developers. The app was later adopted by non-IT organizations as a project management tool. The process accelerated after the launch of Atlassian Marketplace in 2012, which allowed third-party developers to offer project management plugins for Jira. BigPicture, Scriptrunner, Advanced Roadmaps (formerly Portfolio), Structure, Tempo Planner, and ActivityTimeline are major project management plugins for Jira.

References

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