JIRA to codeBeamer Converter available

JIRA (developed by Atlassian) is one of the most popular issue trackers in the enterprise, if not the most popular one. JIRA is a great tool when all you need is an issue tracker, but it's a focused product, and the story ends here. In real life, talking to our customers, we frequently see this evolution: the team starts with an issue tracker, it streamlines their processes, soon the demands for even better processes start to grow, and finally they are in the market looking for a complete solution that solves all (or most) collaboration problems with a single razorsharp cut (think of Hattori Hanzo ).

codeBeamer is one of those solutions. Besides incorporating an issue tracker, it provides you with:

• document management
• version control with Subversion, Git, Mercurial and more
• wiki
• continuous integration
• forums
• and so much more

After a short evaluation period, people starts to realize the strengths of having just one low-cost tool for all these, but then comes the next big problem: as always the value is not in the tool itself, but in their data. So, "we like your stuff, but we already have 175,000 issues in JIRA, where do we go from here?"

ArchitectGroup, our awesome partner in sunny South Korea, has the answer. They built a migration tool to convert your existing JIRA issues to codeBeamer issues. This is a simple open source tool that connects to JIRA and to codeBeamer, and performs a one-time conversion bringing over all issues with their standard and custom fields.

Links:

• User guide - this is available only in Korean language, but don't worry the app is absolutely trivial to use.
• Download - source code included.

What do you think?

Posted at 02:27PM Sep 16, 2009 by Intland Team in Announcements  |  0 Comments