I am trying to implement a hardware project in Jira. These are large-ish projects 12-18 month complete device designs. There are a lot of requirements that go into the project. It will take a good amount of time to build each requirement as an issue as well as build test cases for each requirement. So far what I have implemented is:
- Epic to list overall project objectives, use cases and rationale.
- Requirements (task) linked to the Epic to describe a specific functional requirement including a description, acceptance criteria, and rationale. These are also marked as essential, conditional, or optional.
- Sub-Requirement (Sub-task) These are detailed Engineering requirements built off of the parent functional requirement. Again containing description, AC, rationale and priority.
- Zephyr Tests built for each sub-requirement and possibly for each requirement as well.
- Zephyr cycles used to group and execute the tests are each phase of the hardware project.
- Additionally sub-requirements are grouped using components based on the type of work or who will be completing the design/work (in house/vendor).
- All of the issues are then assigned to a version for the generation of the device being designed.
My objectives for implementing the hardware project in Jira are:
- Create the data in a more manageable format that can be used to generate reports and better share with others.
- Use work follows and test to verify and validate each requirement in the design
- Capture the link between Requirements, Engineering requirements, tests and test results.
- Test results are captured with date and the assignee.
- Once a product generation is set up in Jira with all the issues and tests, the next generation of the product would be a clone with modifications made to the requirements.
So here is the main problem I have not over come. How do I take all the issues and test for one release and clone them to a new release so that all the work of setting up the relationships between requirements and test doesn't have to be redone.
What I have tried.
- Export all issues and test to CSV keeping all the fields.
- Modify CSV to break the like (remove Issue Key) to the original issue, bulk edit to change working to new rev, and change the version.
- Use the Jira external project importer to load the issue back in.
All issue import with relationships as expected! However the tests loose all of their test steps.
Any ideas on a way to "clone" all the issues as described or if there another way to attack the tests?
Thanks!
