Ranking for defects associated with Stories in a release

[Jessica Hitchens]

Hello,

I am wondering if there is a way to have bugs /defects associated to stories within a release to be pushed to the top of a swim lane. So not ALL defects but just those related to a story within a release. 

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello @Jessica Hitchens

Thank you for reaching out.

Per your description, I understand you need to create a swimlane in your board that will display all the defects that are:

1 - Linked to Stories

2 - Is added with a fix version (Release)

If I understood your request correctly, you can configure a JQL to be used as a swimlane to return those issues, you will just need to create/use a specific issue link between your defect and Stories issues, differentiating it from other issue type links. These would be the exact steps:

1 - Create an issue link that will be only used to link defect and Stories, or use a specific link that will not be used to link other issue types

2 - Navigate to your board > Board Settings > Swimlanes > Select queries > Add the following query, updating the values "yourfixversion" and "linkcreated" with the current version of your board and the link you created to link both defects and Stories respectively:

fixVersion = "yourfixversion" and issueLinkType = "linkcreated"

P.S: You can also add the parameter "earliestUnreleasedVersion()" to the fix version field in the JQL, so it will select the last release in your board instead of a specific release.

Let us know if you have any questions.