About the author:Jobin Kuruvilla is an Atlassian Consultant with experience in customizing JIRA and writing JIRA plugins for various customers. He is currently working with Go2Group as an Atlassian platinum expert, and is involved in managing Atlassian products for big enterprises as well as small starter license installations. Jobin is the author of JIRA Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing, released in 2011, which was very well-received in the JIRA community.
JIRA is an issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian and used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. JIRA is a commercial software product that can be licensed for running on-premises or available as a hosted application.