How can I create a report that outlines count of defects per user story?

Question

I am looking for a report or widget that allows me to view the total count of bugs linked to all project user stories.

Currently, all of user stories and defects are part of the same project. All bugs are linked to a user story.

For example: The report would include a list of all user stories and associated count of bugs.

JIRA user story 1 - 10 bugs

JIRA user story 2 - 2 bugs

JIRA user story 3 - 5 bugs

Petter Gonçalves · Answer

Hello Cristina,

Unfortunately, JIRA does not provide you with an inbuilt report to display a list of stories together with the number of linked issues they have.

You could use one of the options below to achieve your need:

1 - You could use a number custom field to get the number of linked bugs to your stories, optionally using a third-party app (like Automation for JIRA) to automatically update the field every time a new issue is linked.

Doing this, you could create a filter to return all your user stories and display their respective number of linked bugs, using the Filter Results gadget in your dashboard.

2 - If you don't have a big number of Stories, you can create a single filter to display the linked issues of each of your stories, adding the filters with the same name of your User stories:

)issue in linkedIssues(ABC-123

Once you create the filters, Star them and use the starred filters gadget to display the filters. On the right side of the filter, it will be displayed the number of issues returned by each filter, which will be the number of linked issues for each Story:

3 - Export your issues to a CSV file. Using the linked issues and issue type columns, organize your linked bugs to return right below their linked stories and create a formula (using a spreadsheet software like Excel or LibreOffice) to display the number of bug issues for each story.

Let me know if this information helps.