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Share: The defense industry is entering a pivotal phase of transformation. With the release of DoDI 5000.97, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has made

Azure DevOps Integration with Jira and GitHub

Bi-directional real-time sync with OpsHub Integration Manager

The integration of Azure DevOps (Both Azure DevOps Server and Services, also known as TFS and VSTS) with Jira and GitHub ensures complete traceability of all work items in the ecosystem. With this integration, the Product Management team will have real-time visibility into all defects, commit trends, and commit volume.

Azure DevOps – Jira and GitHub Integration Overview

In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem, the choice of systems and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, cross-functional collaboration helps the teams get complete context of the business requirements.

Best-of-breed systems such as Azure DevOps (Both Azure DevOps Server and Services, also known as TFS and VSTS), Jira, and GitHub bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. By integrating Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub, the product development team will have real-time visibility into the defects logged by the QA team and commits made by the Development team. It is also easier for the Product Development team to enforce authentic commits against each work item, and access the changes/edits made to the commits files.

How Azure DevOps – Jira and GitHub integration is beneficial for an enterprise

Track commit volume, track commit trends and edits/changes to commit files in real time.

Enforce authentic commits to make sure each commit is happening against a scheduled and open work item.

Eliminate manual effort to close Jira or Azure DevOps work items by automating the state transition on GitHub commit.

With Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub integration, enterprises can:

Make better and faster decisions.
Ensure complete traceability of a ‘requirement’.
Meet all compliance requirements.
Ensure quality delivery in stipulated time.
Leverage the best of functionality and collaboration in the delivery ecosystem.

How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub

OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Azure DevOps (Both Azure DevOps Server and Services, also known as TFS and VSTS), Jira, and GitHub—enabling seamless, bidirectional connectivity across all three systems. This unified Jira–VSTS–Git integration ensures that all historical and current data is available to each user, in their preferred system, with full context and in real-time. All the details related to a commit made against a work item in Azure DevOps can be tracked directly within Azure DevOps. For example, for each commit made in GitHub, a ‘commit entity’ linked to the specific requirement ID is synchronized back to Azure DevOps, including who made the commit, when, and what was changed. Project managers can view development progress and commit details from Azure DevOps itself.

Steps to Integrate Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub

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Configure Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub systems.

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Select the projects and entities for mapping.

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Define the sync direction and map relevant fields for synchronization.

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Activate the sync and monitor real-time performance through OIM’s dashboard.

Use Case: Azure DevOps integration with Jira and GitHub

Problem statement:

No control on backlogs getting committed – therefore, anyone can commit on a bug which is not even present in the active sprint.

Solution:

If Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira are integrated using OpsHub Integration Manager, OpsHub Integration Manager will be able to track commits and send notifications to the relevant stakeholders when changes are made to the code base.

Scenario:

During a Quality Assurance (QA) test, a quality control team member logs a ‘defect’ in Jira. The ‘defect’ also gets synchronized to Azure DevOps as a ‘bug’.
The Development team receives the ‘requirements’ and starts work on it.
The developer works to resolve the ‘bug’ in Azure DevOps.
The Quality Control team, then, runs a test case against it. The test case passes.
The quality Control team changes the status of ‘bug’ to ‘resolved’. OpsHub Integration Manager, automatically, makes this update to the associated defect in Jira.
The Development team, then, commits the changes in GitHub.

Note: Any change made to the code base before the defect is resolved will be notified to the Development and Quality Control teams, giving them complete control to revert the change.

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Azure DevOps Integration with Jira and GitHub

Azure DevOps – Jira and GitHub Integration Overview

How Azure DevOps – Jira and GitHub integration is beneficial for an enterprise

With Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub integration, enterprises can:

How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub

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