Associating the Project with an Application Life Cycle System to Create Work Items
Code Insight integrates application lifecycle management (ALM) systems (also known as issue-tracking systems), enabling Code Insight users to create and manage external work items associated with inventory directly from Code Insight. With this integration, inventory requiring further review and remediation can be tracked externally as part of the user’s existing issue-tracking system.
For example, a Code Insight scan might uncover security vulnerabilities or copyleft licenses requiring further review by the Security and Legal teams. With an ALM integration, these reviews and any resulting remedial work can be quickly converted into work items in the ALM system directly from Code Insight. Users can also track the state of these work items—and open the items—from Code Insight.
Currently, Code Insight supports integration with only Jira as an ALM system. This chapter focuses the Project Administrator’s task of configuring a Code Insight project for Jira integration so that the project’s users can create and track issues on the Jira system from Code Insight.
The following topics provide the background and process for configuring projects to integrate with Jira:
| • | About the Jira Connector and Instances |
| • | Associating a Code Insight Project with a Jira ALM instance |
| • | Disassociating a Jira ALM Instance from a Project |