It is entirely possible to set up Jira so that a subtask may remain open, while the parent task is closed. This effectively creates orphan subtasks, not connected to any open issue or ticket.

Identifying these is a matter of first identifying all subtasks, and then checking the status of both the subtask and its parent.

We first identify all subtasks for a given project by invoking a service context, and running some JQL against the Jira instance:

 import com.atlassian.jira.bc.filter.SearchRequestService
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.SearchRequest
import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator
import com.atlassian.jira.bc.JiraServiceContext
import com.atlassian.jira.bc.JiraServiceContextImpl
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.SearchProvider
import com.atlassian.jira.jql.parser.JqlQueryParser
import com.atlassian.jira.web.bean.PagerFilter
import com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.search.SearchService
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.label.LabelManager

def jqlQueryParser = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(JqlQueryParser)
def searchProvider = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(SearchProvider)
def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def searchService = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SearchService)
def user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()
def searchManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SearchRequestService)
def contextManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(JiraServiceContext)
def searchRequest = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SearchRequest)
def labelManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(LabelManager)



JiraServiceContextImpl serviceCtx = new JiraServiceContextImpl(user);
//Declare a search context using the logged-in user

def queryParser = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(JqlQueryParser)
//Declare a parser to handle the JQL query

def query = queryParser.parseQuery('project = "<project name>" ')
//Define the JQL query.  In this instance we're returning all issues under a given project

def search = searchService.search(user, query, PagerFilter.getUnlimitedFilter())
//Define a search, using all the pieces defined