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Utilizing Atlassian JIRA for Large-Scale Software Development Management

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J.M. Fisher, D.J. Koning, A.P. Ludwigsen
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-632634
Used actively by the National Ignition Facility since 2004, the JIRA issue tracking system from Atlassian is now used for 63 different projects. NIF software developers and customers have created over 80,000 requests (issues) for new features and bug fixes. The largest NIF software project in JIRA is the Integrated Computer Control system (ICCS), with nearly 40,000 issues. In this paper, we’ll discuss how JIRA has been customized to meet our software development process. ICCS developed a custom workflow in JIRA for tracking code reviews, recording test results by both developers and a dedicated Quality Control team, and managing the product release process. JIRA’s advanced customization capability have proven to be a great help in tracking key metrics about the ICCS development efforts (e.g. developer workload). ICCS developers store software in a configuration management tool called AccuRev, and document all software changes in each JIRA issue. Specialized tools developed by the NIF Configuration Management team analyze each software product release, insuring that each software product release contains only the exact expected changes.

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TUCOBAB03	Utilizing Atlassian JIRA for Large-Scale Software Development Management	505
	J.M. Fisher, D.J. Koning, A.P. Ludwigsen LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-632634 Used actively by the National Ignition Facility since 2004, the JIRA issue tracking system from Atlassian is now used for 63 different projects. NIF software developers and customers have created over 80,000 requests (issues) for new features and bug fixes. The largest NIF software project in JIRA is the Integrated Computer Control system (ICCS), with nearly 40,000 issues. In this paper, we’ll discuss how JIRA has been customized to meet our software development process. ICCS developed a custom workflow in JIRA for tracking code reviews, recording test results by both developers and a dedicated Quality Control team, and managing the product release process. JIRA’s advanced customization capability have proven to be a great help in tracking key metrics about the ICCS development efforts (e.g. developer workload). ICCS developers store software in a configuration management tool called AccuRev, and document all software changes in each JIRA issue. Specialized tools developed by the NIF Configuration Management team analyze each software product release, insuring that each software product release contains only the exact expected changes.
	Slides TUCOBAB03 [2.010 MB]