Benefits Of Using JIRA Tool

JIRA tool is very helpful to improve the capability of the development and testing team to perform a task or operation in a better way. JIRA is specially designed for bug tracking but it can be used by developers also. Sometimes during the development stage testers and developers can be bothered by so many things which are very important part of a high-quality software. 

Here are few most important benefits of JIRA tool -

1. Beneficial for better visibility - It is the basic and most important thing during the development of any software. Here are 2 things which can make the whole process slow - Lack of visibility and the scheduling according to the starting and ending time of any task. 

JIRA terminates this problem and makes a better communication way between development and testing team because all the members can know that "when a task is starting and when that will be completed?".

2. Better prioritization -  When a software comes under the development, then most important thing is to prioritize each and every task properly. Which task is more important and has higher priority than others, we can manage easily using JIRA. Prioritization of the tasks can handle at the time of creation of the tasks. Prioritized tasks help the developers to complete the tasks faster and in a proper way before the given deadline by the Project Manager or the owner of the project. Using JIRA, developers can utilize each and every minute in the development of software with full focus.

3. Increased Productivity - As we know that, when we create tasks in JIRA then a list generates automatically which help the developers to see that which is the next task which they have to do. But, if JIRA is not in use then the manual listing can bring up the software in the downtime and can create a lot of pressure on the development and testing team. High productivity is the desire of every organization and JIRA is very helpful to increase that. 

4. Free to use - JIRA tool is free to use and all the premium features are also free with its. Most of the time other tools are paid for the organizations. 

5. Time - Tracking -  Using JIRA tool, can track the time for every task that how much time has been spent on the particular task from starting to ending. At the time of creation of the tasks, creator assigns the estimated time. In which API development (coding for back-end), UI development (coding for front-end) and the testing of the task all these 3 things are included. and after the completion of every step spent time can be updated by any member of the team. 

On the basis of time spent, a chart generates which is known as BURNDOWN CHART. Which indicates that how the tasks are going on (based on the speed of completion of the tasks). 

6. Generation of the reports - JIRA tool is very helpful to download the reports on the basis of Tasks and time spent on the particular task for the future purpose. It provides a way to download the list of Tasks, Assignee, Reporter, and whole information regarding every task.