The JIRA menu contains options like Home, Dashboards, Projects, Issues, Boards, Create, and Tests. It also has a search bar and additional options like Application Selector, Feedback, Help, Settings, and Profile. The Settings menu allows configuring applications, projects, issues administration, add-ons, system settings, user management, billing, and discovering new applications. Projects in JIRA can contain versions, epics, sprints, releases, issues, components, tests, links, invitations, and custom settings.

1. JIRA
JIRA Menu Options
 This is a System Dashboard of JIRA software. Various menu options present in JIRA software are:
o Home
o Dashboards
o Projects
o Issues
o Boards
o Create
o Tests menu is added with the integration of “Zephyr for JIRA” add-on with JIRA software.
 JIRA menu is packed with an inbuilt Search field, which can be used to search any issues related
to the JIRA projects.
 Additional menu options are:
o Application selector: Located to the left end of the JIRA window ( ); is used to select
the different applications that is integrated with JIRA software such as Confluence,
Bitbucket etc.
o Feedback: Located to the left side of JIRA window ( ); is used to provide user feedback
for JIRA software.
o Help: Located to the left side of JIRA window ( ); provides various JIRA online help
links.
o Settings: Located to the right side of the JIRA window ( ); provides various settings
options for JIRA software, applications and administrations.
o Profile: Located to the right end of the JIRA window ( ); is used to view the profile
details of the user. Also has a logout option and few others

2. Application Navigator
 Here we can switch between the various applications that are integrated
along with the JIRA software(Confluence,Bitbucket…). Also we can
configure the application settings from this menu.
Home
 This menu direct to the JIRA software home page from the current page.
Dashboards
 Dashboard provide an overall status and various statistics of current
project.
 Under “View all dashboard”, you can create a new dashboard. New
dashboard can be a blank dashboard or System dashboard.
 Blank dashboard can be then edited to match your requirement. System
dashboard creates a dashboard with some pre-defined formats, however you can re-edit the
existing configuration to match your requirements.
 We can add the gadgets in the dashboards, which will help in reading the statistics and status of
the project without any much calculation needed.
Projects
 From “Project” menu, we can view the current project. Also project
under various types can be also seen. Also we can create a new
project from here.

3. Issues
 This menu deals with handling all the issues created under a project.
 You can also search for a particular issue. Recent issues worked on are
displayed here.
 Importing issues from various external files such as “CSV” can also be done
from here.
 Also we can look for an issue of particular type by applying some filters.
Boards
 Has links to the project boards, where the status of issue under current
sprint is updated.
o To do ->In Progress->Done
Tests
 This menu is added after the integration of “Zephyr for JIRA” add-on.
 All the test case related activities can be performed from here.
Create new test, View the test, Search for a test.
 Also test execution can be performed from here. Planning and
designing test cycles, performing execution, applying filters all can be
done from here.
 Test metrics and test summary of the test executed can also be
viewed from here.
 Traceability of an issue can be done from here.
 The API code required to import the test case using external tool is
generated from here.

4. Create
 This menu is used to create a new Issue in the JIRA software. In JIRA everything is
treated as “ISSUE”.
 Various issue types are:
o Task
o Sub Tasks
o Epics
o Test
o Bug
o Stories
Settings
 Settings ( ) menu redirects to the main settings page of the JIRA software. Where the entire
application and its contents can be controlled and managed per user requirements.
 Below is the settings page main menu;
o Applications
o Projects
o Issues Administration
o Add-ons
o System
o User management
o Billing Site administration
o Discover new applications

5. Administration:
Applications:
 Application Access is sued to provide users access to various
application that is integrated with JIRA software.
Projects:
 Projects displays all the projects available in JIRA.
 Project Categories lets you to create new categories, which can be used to categorize the
projects.

6. Issues:
 All the issue related settings can be accessed from here.

7. Add-ons:
 Any Add-on related settings can be found under here. Add new, manage existing all can be
done from here.

8. System:
 Various system settings can be set from here.

9. Site administration
User management: manage the users profiles, groups, application access,
password policy from here
Billing: all the billing related details here. Managing application licences
etc.
Discover new applications: search and integrate new applications from
here
Project Window
 We can create Versions, Epics from here.
 All the newly created issues will be added in to “Backlog” by
default. We can create Sprints here and add the issues to those
sprints.
 Active Sprints is managed from here. It takes you to the board to
manage the issue workflow.
To do ->In Progress ->Done
 Releases can be used to control and release the versions. We can
also create the versions from here.
 Reports are used to give the real time metrics of the complete
project. Numerous reports are available to fetch the required
data from.
 Issue deals with all the issue related activities.
 Components are used to group the issues. This can be used to
track back issue of certain types.
 Tests deals with all the test related activities. Test summary, Test
results and Traceability can be found from here.
 Any internal or external links to the resources can be added as
shortcut.
 Invite team to help you in your project.
 Project settings provides a lot of options to the user to set the project per need.

10. Project Settings
 All the project related settings are performed from here.
 Summary of project, deleting the project, Issue types used, user
roles, access permission, notifications to the users.
 Integration with development tools like Bitbucket etc. are
performed from here.
 Issue Collectors lets you to add a feedback collecting form in your
website.