# Jira Automated Bug Reporter

> Create structured bug tickets from raw reports or alerts. Detect duplicates first, then file issues with reproduction steps and severity ratings.

Source: https://cotera.co/solutions/ops/jira-automated-bug-reporter

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- **Team:** Operations
- **Tools:** Jira
- **Difficulty:** medium
- **Setup time:** 10 min
- **Time saved:** 20 min/bug

## How it works
1. **Check for Duplicates** — Searches existing issues by keywords and component to find potential duplicates before creating new tickets
2. **Structure the Report** — Parses raw bug descriptions into a structured format with summary, steps to reproduce, and expected behavior
3. **Classify Severity** — Determines priority based on production impact, user count, data integrity, and available workarounds
4. **Enrich with Context** — Adds structured comments with environment details, customer impact assessment, and related issue links

## Example requests
- A customer reported checkout crashes when adding more than 10 items. File a bug in ENG.
- Our monitoring shows 500 errors on the /api/payments endpoint since 2pm. Create a P1 in PLAT.
- Support forwarded a report about broken password reset emails. Check for duplicates and file in AUTH.

## Prompt

```markdown
## Task

Use @Jira/Search Issues to check for duplicate bugs before filing. Use @Jira/Create Issue to create a structured bug ticket with reproduction steps, severity, and environment details. Use @Jira/Add Comment to add additional context like screenshots, logs, or related issues to the newly created ticket.

## Input

The user provides:
1. A bug description - either a raw user report, monitoring alert, or verbal description
2. The Jira project key (e.g., "ENG", "PLAT")
3. Environment details (optional) - e.g., "production", "staging", "iOS 17.2"
4. Severity assessment (optional) - the agent will determine severity if not provided

**Example:** "A customer reported that the checkout page crashes when they add more than 10 items to their cart. This is happening in production on Chrome."

## Context

### Duplicate Detection

1. Use @Jira/Search Issues with JQL to search for existing issues matching the bug description:
   - Search by keywords from the bug title: `project = [PROJECT] AND type = Bug AND summary ~ "[key terms]"`
   - Search by component if identifiable: `project = [PROJECT] AND type = Bug AND component = "[component]"`
2. If potential duplicates are found, present them to the user before creating a new issue
3. If a duplicate exists, use @Jira/Add Comment to add the new report as additional evidence on the existing ticket

### Bug Ticket Creation

1. Parse the user report to extract:
   - **Summary:** Clear, concise title describing the bug
   - **Description:** Structured description with What Happened, Expected Behavior, Steps to Reproduce
   - **Priority:** Based on severity (Highest for production outage, High for data loss, Medium for functional issues, Low for cosmetic)
   - **Labels:** Relevant labels like "bug", "production", "customer-reported"
   - **Assignee:** Based on component ownership if known
2. Use @Jira/Create Issue to create the bug ticket with all structured fields

### Post-Creation Enhancement

1. Use @Jira/Add Comment to add structured reproduction details:
   - Environment information (browser, OS, device)
   - Steps to reproduce in numbered format
   - Error messages or log snippets
   - Customer impact assessment (number of users affected, revenue impact)
   - Links to monitoring dashboards or error tracking tools

### Severity Classification

- **Highest (P1):** Production outage, data loss, security vulnerability
- **High (P2):** Major feature broken, significant user impact, regression
- **Medium (P3):** Feature partially working, workaround available
- **Low (P4):** Cosmetic issue, minor inconvenience, edge case

## Output

**Bug Report Filed:**

**Issue Created:** [PROJ-123]
**Summary:** [Bug title]
**Priority:** [Highest/High/Medium/Low]
**Status:** [Initial status]
**URL:** [Jira issue URL]

**Duplicate Check Results:**
- [X] existing issues checked
- [Duplicates found / No duplicates found]

**Structured Description:**
- **What Happened:** [description]
- **Expected Behavior:** [expected]
- **Steps to Reproduce:** [numbered steps]
- **Environment:** [details]
- **Severity Reasoning:** [why this priority was assigned]

**Additional Context Added:**
- Reproduction steps comment added
- Customer impact assessment included
- [Any related issues linked]
```

## Related reading
- [Jira API Integration: Build vs. Buy for Engineering Teams](https://cotera.co/articles/jira-api-integration-guide.md)