Assigning testing of ticket to someone other than the owner

[John Salib]

Currently our team is lacking QA.
For that each developer will test the other developer's tickets.
I need to create an automation to will assign the ticket to someone else other than the person who worked on it when it moved from IN-REVIEW to READY-FOR-TEST

I couldn't create a dynamic list to assign the issue.

Could you please help me?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Marta Woźniak-Semeniuk]

Hey @John Salib 

You can use automation to do this - see print screen below
This way you can create a list of people who JIRA will choose from, you can choose if it will be balanced, or random and you can restrict that this can't be current assignee using JQL :) 

[John Salib]

> you can restrict that this can't be current assignee using JQL :)

Would you please help me specify that in JQL?

[John Salib]

BTW, I already reached that far on my own, but I could't do the JQL part to specify the current assign not to be part of the `User list`. Because `User list` is static.

[Marta Woźniak-Semeniuk]

Okay, so this is what I would call an ugly code if I was a coder, but it should work so ;) 

Try making it kind of a loop - assign to a member of the group and add a Check if the current assignee matches previous one, the rule will be executed again until it gets assigned to someone else.

I went through Community and documentation and I did not find a more elegant way. 

[John Salib]

This is genius.
Thanks a lot Marta, I will test it and will keep you posted

[John Salib]

@Marta Woźniak-Semeniuk 

I tried your solution but unfortunately I keep getting
`Destination status could not be resolved. If using a smart-value ensure this resolves to a numeric status ID or untranslated name for issues (with current status):`

I believe that I copied your suggestion word for word.

Do you have any idea why is this happening?