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What is Smart Data Generator for Jira?

Smart Data Generator is an automation tool for quickly creating realistic projects, issues, and sprints for testing, demos, onboarding, and training. It supports Software, Service Management, and Business project types. Project generation is available for Company-managed projects only, while issue generation is supported across both Company-managed and Team-managed modes.

📌 Purpose of the documentation

This guide introduces Smart Data Generator for Jira — a powerful tool that helps teams quickly create realistic, structured Jira data without relying on production systems.

Whether you’re a Jira administrator, QA engineer, consultant, or trainer, the app saves hours of manual setup by automatically generating projects, issues, workflows, and sprints that look and behave like real ones.

With Smart Data Generator, you can:

• Populate test environments with lifelike datasets for development, QA, or plugin validation.
• Create polished demo setups for client presentations, workshops, or internal showcases.
• Prepare ready-to-use training projects for onboarding and role-based exercises.
• Simulate performance and scale by generating thousands of issues to test system limits.
• Validate migrations and upgrades using safe, production-like sample data.
• Power dashboards and analytics tools with credible data that makes reports meaningful.

In short: if you need Jira data — for testing, training, demos, or validation — Smart Data Generator lets you create it in minutes instead of days. 🚀

The documentation includes setup instructions, step-by-step usage guides, configuration examples, and answers to common questions.

📁 Supported Jira project types

Smart Data Generator for Jira supports all project types. Project generation is supported for Company-managed and Team-managed types (except Business Team-managed, which supports issue generation only). Sprint generation is available for all Software Company-managed projects, as well as Software Team-managed projects created by this app.

• Software Projects
  • Scrum (Company-managed)
  • Kanban (Company-managed)
  • Scrum (Team-managed) — sprint generation supported only for projects created by this app
  • Kanban (Team-managed)
• Service Management Projects
  • Company-managed
  • Team-managed
• Business Projects
  • Company-managed
  • Team-managed — issues only

This broad support allows the app to be used across various departments and Jira use cases.

🚀 List of Main Features

Smart Data Generator for Jira offers flexible and powerful tools to generate structured Jira data at scale. Below is an overview of the main features:

• 🔧 Generating Projects
  Create multiple Jira projects in one go. Supports Software, Service, and Business projects (Business in Company-managed types only). Configure quantity, name prefixes/suffixes, and type selection.
• 🐞 Generating Issues
  Bulk-generate issues across selected projects with full control over quantity per issue type, and optional naming rules. Ideal for populating demo or test environments.
• 🏃 Generating Sprints
  Automatically create sprints within selected boards. Define the number of sprints, issue distribution, status ratios, and naming options. Available for all Company-managed projects and Team-managed projects generated by the app.
• ⚙️ Advanced Issue Generation
  Generate realistic issue sets using proportional distribution by type, priority, and status. Useful for performance testing and process simulations.