Helix Core – JIRA and Jenkins Integration Overview
In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem, the choice of systems and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, the cross-functional collaboration helps the teams get complete context of the business requirements.
Best-of-breed systems such as JIRA, Jenkins, and Helix Core bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. When Helix Core is integrated with JIRA and Jenkins, all stakeholders have real-time visibility into the commits made by the development team. It is also easier to enforce authentic commits against each work item, and access the changes/edits made to the commit files from JIRA itself.
How Helix Core – JIRA – Jenkins integration is beneficial for an enterprise
- Track commit volume, track commit trends and edits/changes to commit files in real time
- Enforce authentic commits to make sure each commit is happening against a scheduled and open workitem
- Eliminate manual effort to close JIRA workitem by automating the state transition on Helix Core commit
With Helix Core + JIRA + Jenkins integration, enterprises can:
How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates JIRA, Helix Core, and Jenkins
OpsHub Integration Manager integrates JIRA with Helix Core and Jenkins – each system with the other bi-directionally. It ensures that all historical and current data is available to each user, in that user’s preferred system, with full context, in real-time. All the details related to a commit made against a work-item in JIRA can be tracked from JIRA itself. For example, for each commit that development team makes in Helix Core, Helix Core synchronizes a ‘commit entity’ linked to the specific requirement id back to JIRA. Each commit entity’ includes information such as ‘who did the commit?’, ‘when was the commit done?’, and ‘which part of the code was committed?’.
Popularly synchronized entities
Use Case: JIRA integration with Helix Core and Jenkins
Problem statement: No control on backlogs getting committed – therefore, anyone can commit on a defect that is not even present in the active sprint.
Solution: If JIRA, Helix Core, and Jenkins are integrated using OpsHub Integration Manager, then OpsHub Integration Manager can put a check that user can only commit on a defect that is present in active sprint.
- A developer works on a ‘defect’ in JIRA and runs a test case against it. The test case passes.
- The developer then commits against the ‘defect’ in Helix Core.
- As the ‘defect’ against which the developer has committed is not in active sprint, when Jenkins runs a pre-scheduled test on it, the commit fails.
- The status of the commit synchronizes to JIRA.
Benefits of integration for JIRA and Helix Core users
JIRA users
- Complete traceability from JIRA to source code in Helix Core
- Visibility into the volume, quality of commits, and commit trends in real-time
- Reduced dependency on manual communication to track the completion of a task
Helix Core users
- Each commit can be traced back to its respective workitem at any given point in time from Helix Core itself
- Enforced checkpoints ensure that no mandatory steps/checks are missed while making a commit – this leads to high success rate for commits