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Creating and Working on Sub-tasks in JIRA- Tutorial 9

Using JIRA as a project tracking tool, it is possible to breakdown a parent task into a number of smaller sub-tasks. Sub-tasks can be assigned to the individual team member so that his effort and the sub-task progress can be tracked separately. Similarly, the other team members which are working on other sub-tasks of the same issue together with make the overall tracking of parent issue very smooth and it provides a better picture of its progress. Using such an approach it is very easy to understand which sub-task has a backlog and which sub-task is holding off the progress of the other subtasks within a parent issue or in the entire project.

Sub-tasks in JIRA

In JIRA, all sub-tasks associated with parent issues are summarized on the parent issue’s main page. Since sub-tasks belong to a parent issue therefore both belongs to the same project in JIRA. Like a standard JIRA issue, sub-tasks have same fields such as Summary, Description, Reporter, Assignee, Status, etc. Sub-tasks may have a different issue types set than a standard-issue type. Sub-tasks cannot have their own sub-tasks, but to do so covert the sub-task into a standard JIRA issue and break it into a number of sub-tasks.

In JIRA, we can do the following operations with sub-tasks.

1) Creation of a Sub-tasks in JIRA:

To create an issue, you should have a create issue permission in JIRA. Below are the steps to create sub-tasks.

2) Working with Sub-tasks in JIRA:

All sub-tasks are listed on the parent issue screen. You can track the progress of the sub-tasks from the parent issue screen itself. Below are the operations you can do with the sub-tasks.

3) Searching for sub-tasks:

Like any other issue in JIRA, Sub-task can be searched with their reference number through search panel present on the right-hand side of the JIRA header as shown in the below screenshot.

Alternatively, under the issues dropdown menu present on the JIRA header click on the option “My Open Issues”, you will see the below screen where you can click to filter issue type from All to “All Sub-Task Issue Types” to view all your open sub-tasks in JIRA.

4) Converting a standard issue to a sub-task:

In JIRA, if you want to convert any issue as sub-task then follow these steps.

5) Converting a sub-task to a standard-issue:

In JIRA, if you want to convert any sub-task to an issue then follow these steps.

Conclusion:

Here we walk through about how Sub-tasks in JIRA works and its basic features. Jira is a powerful tool that allows us to create tasks, sub-tasks, issues, covert issues into sub-tasks, convert sub-tasks into issues, etc.

Overall the JIRA system shows quite a good interface along with easy user experience. It has many more features that the test team really needs.

Hope this article helps you to understand basic concepts about Sub-tasks in JIRA. Many readers must have hands-on experience using the JIRA tool. Let us know if you have a unique experience to share about JIRA.


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