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Inside Atlassian: introducing Atlassian QA

This is the first in a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. True, it’s an assumption – but probably a safe one – that the majority of […]

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Making Bonfire, Part II

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. Previously, I explained how Bonfire (or Excalibur as it was then known) became an internal tool at Atlassian. In Part II I’ll explain how it […]

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Making Bonfire, Part I

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. At the Atlassian Summit in June this year we announced Bonfire, a tool for rapid bug reporting and session-based testing. In the five months since […]

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Testing’s In Session

  At Atlassian, we use test sessions to manually test our products. If you’re a tester and haven’t heard of test sessions before, you might be surprised to learn that you’re probably using them too. That’s because test sessions aren’t new. They’re simply the periods of time, usually an hour or two, sometimes more, devoted to fulfilling […]

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Testing: You don't have to be Agile to be agile

Test teams don’t usually choose their organisations software development methodology. Hopefully the irony of being in such a situation is not lost on any teams that call themselves “Quality Assurance”. Still this doesn’t prevent test managers and test teams from adopting practices outside of the decreed methodology to their advantage.