OpenReq Issue Link Map: A Tool to Visualize Issue Links in Jira
This tool helps developers, project managers, and product owners in software organizations maintain an overview of dependencies in large projects, but it is incremental as it builds on existing issue tracking systems.
The authors tackled the problem of managing complex software projects with many issues and dependencies in Jira by developing a plug-in that visualizes issue links, finds missing links, and detects inconsistencies.
Managing software projects gets more and more complicated with an increasing project and product size. To cope with this complexity, many organizations use issue tracking systems, where tasks, bugs, and requirements are stored as issues. Unfortunately, managing software projects might remain chaotic even when using issue trackers. Particularly for long lasting projects with a large number of issues and links between them, it is often hard to maintain an overview of the dependencies, especially when dozens of new issues get reported every day. We present a Jira plug-in that supports developers, project managers, and product owners in managing and overviewing issues and their dependencies. Our tool visualizes the issue links, helps to find missing or unknown links between issues, and detects inconsistencies.