Defect and Sub tasks Management

Question

Hello All,

Whenever a defect is raised in jira board. we have couple of tasks to be done in multiple sprints . But in jira sub tasks could not be moved to different sprint and they stay where ever parent defect stays. because of this i had to move the defect to multiple sprints which is kind of Spill or in complete work.

Eg: -

Defect 1 has dev task , QA task. i want to do dev task in sprint 1 and QA task in sprint 2 thus i want to close Defect 1 by sprint 2.

Chris Rogers · Answer

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Praveen_ Deepak _Synchrony_ consultant_ · Answer

thanks Chris Rogers

Md. Abrarul Huda · Answer

The best thing you can do here is split the defect into tasks.
I'm guessing for your board, defect is the same level as a task. That's why, you can only tag subtasks. But if you break the main defect down...

1. Simply Breakdown the original defect into achievable goals. And make separate tasks.

2. Link the original defect item as "Split from".

3. Than you can assign each separate task to a separate sprint.

4. Write an automation rule to auto complete the original defect once all "Split to" items are closed.

Should make life a little easier if you don't want to move the main defect ticket.