Bug management

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Bug management and tracking issues are essential components in the software release process. It is important to resolve all issues to deliver quality software. CloudBees Release Orchestration SaaS can give your team a single view of all bugs and issues related to the deployment of a new feature.

In CloudBees Release Orchestration SaaS, you can configure your bug management tool to find, track, assign, and close software bugs and issues.

Configuring bug management

To configure bug management:

  1. From the CloudBees Release Orchestration SaaS Home page, select Admin  Settings.

  2. Select Bug management on the left pane.

  3. Select Add new to display a blank form. If there are no current configurations, the blank form is displayed by default.

  4. Enter a Tool name.

  5. Select a Tool type from the options.

  6. Enter the Tool URL.

  7. Enter the API token or password, as appropriate.

  8. Enter the User name.

  9. Select from the options to file a bug.

  10. Select Save.

Bug management
Figure 1. Bug management configuration

Your bug management configuration is saved and listed on the right pane.

Mapping a project to bug management

You can assign a project to the bug management tool.

You can create an Atlassian Jira API token at API Tokens.

To map a project to bug management:

  1. From the CloudBees Release Orchestration SaaS Home page, select Admin  Settings.

  2. Select Bug management on the left pane.

  3. Select a project from the right pane.

  4. Select Configure under Mapping status.

  5. Map custom fields to a tool field.

  6. Map bugs to a project stage and Jira epic (or Jira component, for Classic Jira).

    Each project must have only one mapping.

Your project is assigned to bug management.

Bug management mapping
Figure 2. Mapping bugs to Jira project management

Updating a configuration

You can update the bug management configuration.

To update your bug management configuration:

  1. From the CloudBees Release Orchestration SaaS Home page, select Admin  Settings.

  2. Select Bug management on the left pane.

  3. Select a configuration on the right pane.

  4. Make any updates.

  5. Select Update.

Your bug management configuration is updated.

Deleting a configuration

To delete your bug management configuration:

  1. From the CloudBees Release Orchestration SaaS Home page, select Admin  Settings.

  2. Select Bug management on the left pane.

  3. Select a configuration on the right pane.

  4. Select Trash can Delete.

  5. Select DELETE.

Your bug management configuration is deleted.

  • Select Reset to clear your selection at any time.

  • You can only update configurations that are not Pending.