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Configure development tools

Jira Software can be connected to a range of development Use Jira Cloud with
tools to help keep your project tracking in sync with your other applications
development work. Configure development
tools
Connect to source code management tools, like
Bitbucket or GitHub, where you can: Configure collaboration
tools
configure issues to automatically transition when Integrate Jira Cloud and
certain events occur in your repository, such as Slack
commits and branches created, pull requests merged
and declined, and more Add and manage apps in
create branches, pull requests, and commits directly your toolchain
from issues in Jira Software Integrate Jira Cloud with
see every issue with its related commits, branches, Microsoft Teams
builds, and pull requests in Jira Software Show more
see your deployments (if you have enabled Bitbucket
Pipelines) On this page
Connect to Crucible for code reviews, where you can: Connecting Jira
Software to your
configure issues to automatically transition when a development tools
review changes status Configuring Jira
see every issue with its related reviews in Jira Software Software and your
Connect to Bamboo, and you can see every issue with its development tools
related builds and deployments in Jira Software. Development panel on
issues
Connecting Jira Software to your View development
development tools
information on the Jira
board
Make sure that you have the right permissions. You View issue information in
need to be a Jira administrator to connect Jira your developer tools
Software to another application. You also need to Create branches,
be an administrator for your development tool. commits and pull
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Follow the instructions on Integrating with development requests from an issue

tools (Jira admin documentation) to connect Jira Workflow triggers
Software to your development tools.
Development
information on the
Configuring Jira Software and your release page
development tools
Some features will be automatically enabled when you Community
connect Jira Software to your development tools. Others Questions, discussions,
require some additional configuration. Each feature is listed and articles
below, including the configuration work required to set it
up.
Development panel on issues
The Development panel is shown on every issue, and
helps you to evaluate the development status of an issue at
a glance. If you need to investigate further, click any item
to display more details, or drill down into the development
tool.
You don't need to do any further configuration once you
have connected Jira Software to your development tools.
However, your team will need to know how to reference
issues in their development work.

Learn more: Referencing issues in your development work

We're gradually rolling out a new issue view, which
you may see on your boards and in your backlog.
The issue detail view will look a little different and
some procedures will change slightly. Take a look

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at our info page to see what's changed and get the

latest updates.

View development information on the Jira board

Once you’ve connected your development tools and your
team is using issue keys in branch names, commit
messages, and pull requests, you’ll start seeing
development information on your Jira board. Issue cards
will display development icons to indicate when they have
pull requests, branches, commits, or deployments
associated with them, so you can see at a glance how work
is progressing. You can hover over the icons to view the
details of the development activity, and click through to go
to your connected development tool.
Development icons will show on your Jira board as
long as:
At least one of the issues on your board has
development data linked to it.
Your board contains less than 100 issues.

View issue information in your developer tools

If you have connected Jira Software to one of the
supported developer tools, like Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab,
Fisheye/Crucible, or any other source code tools available
on the Marketplace, you will be able to view information
about the issues in those tools. For example, in Bitbucket,
you'll be able to see the issues that were referenced in a
changeset; in Bamboo, you'll be able to see the issues
linked to a plan's builds.
Here's an example of an issue key (MSP-15) in a commit
message in Bitbucket:

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When you click the issue key in Bitbucket, you'll see the
issue view:

Learn more: Bitbucket Cloud,

GitHub, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible
Create branches, commits and pull requests from
an issue
If you’ve connected a source code management tool like
Bitbucket or GitHub, you can create branches directly from
issues in Jira Software via the Create branch link in the
Development panel. The link will open your connected
code tool and launch the process of creating a branch for
you. If you have multiple tools connected, you can choose
where you'd like to create the branch.
Once a branch is created and linked to an issue, you can
also create commits and pull requests via the Development
panel on a Jira issue.
Workflow triggers
You can configure triggers in workflows that respond to
events in your linked development tools. This helps your
team keep their issue statuses in sync with their
development work, rather than lagging behind. For
example, when a developer creates a branch in Bitbucket
to start work on an issue, they can reference the issue in
the branch name, and the issue will automatically be
transitioned from 'Open' to 'In progress'.
You'll need to add triggers to your workflow(s)
after connecting Jira Software to your development

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tools. We recommend that you read our guide on

configuring workflow triggers.

Learn more about configuring workflow triggers (Jira

admin documentation)
Development information on the release page
If you’ve enabled the Releases feature in Jira and you’re
using versions to organize your team’s work, you can use
the release page to view the progress of a version and
determine what is likely to ship, at a glance. You can see all
of the issues in the version, broken down by status
category, as well as potential problems that could affect
the release of the version (e.g. issues that should be in the
release but are part of unmerged pulled requests, issues
that haven't had code reviews, or broken builds).
To view development information on the release page:
Log in to Jira Softwareand go to your project.
Select Releases in the project menu.
Select a version from the list.
Look for the Development column in the table of
issues.
Once you have connected Jira Software to your
development tools, you don't need to do any further
configuration to see development information on the
release page. However, your team will need to know how to
reference issues in their development work.
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Learn more: Referencing issues in your development work

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