Track the number of times a defect has changed its status

Madhavi Gopavajjula_299jo3

Hi,  Can we track how many times a defect has moved from one status to the other?  Suppose a defect has moved from "In Dev" status to "QA" and then "In Review" status.  Later, it moved back to "In Dev" status and went through the work flow statuses.. Suppose this has occurred number of times for a 1000 defects.  I would like to know the procedure to analyse the number of times the defects has passed back and forth in its status for a group of defects.  What query can I give to get this information?  Please help.

Petter Gonçalves

Hello Madhavi,

JIRA itself does not have this functionality, however, there is an add-on that can provide you the data to meet your requirement: JIRA Misc Workflow Extension

Using the add-on, you can create a custom number field (with the initial value of 0) and use the post function Increase value of field to increase the field value each time you go through a transition.

See https://innovalog.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JMWE/Post-functions

It would increment the value for each defect, so you would still need to sum the value added to each defect to have the total number as you need.