Making Bonfire: How Atlassians live ‘Be the change you seek’
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. What do you get when you combine a bit of motivation to learn javascript, a not-so-great metric on the time it takes to create […]
Atlassian Bonfire 1.7 Available – Share Templates with your Team
Atlassian Bonfire 1.7 is here with the highest voted feature request in Bonfire’s short history: sharable templates! Sharable templates are just one more way Bonfire empowers teams who test. Read on to learn more about the exciting new features Bonfire 1.7 brings for exploratory testing within teams. Share & Favorite Templates Templates speed up data […]
Jira 5 Early Access: Start your Plugin Engines
We’re excited to announce the availability of Jira 5.0 RC1 for download from our early access program! RC releases are a fairly stable snapshot of our work in progress, providing an advance preview of new features and, more importantly, a chance for plugin developers to test and update plugins in advance of an official release. […]
GreenHopper 5.8 deep dive – DevOps & IT Operations with the Rapid Board
As Bryce posted this morning on our developer blog, the Atlassian Build Engineering team adopted GreenHopper’s Rapid Board to make some big changes and solve a number of operational problems. GreenHopper 5.8 is here, and marks the Rapid Board moving out of ‘Labs’ – so operational teams at Atlassian have been exploring ways to use […]
GreenHopper 5.8 now available: Rapid Board for Kanban
GreenHopper 5.8 is now available, delivering a huge win for everyone: the new Rapid Board! A major innovation for GreenHopper, the Rapid Board is a flexible new board for managing and reporting on work in progress. The Rapid Board also provides multiple project support, which alone satisfies a whopping 255 votes – the most requested […]
Bonfire 1.4 Available: Introducing Tags for Session Notes
Atlassian Bonfire 1.4 is here, helping teams organize information gathered during manual testing with new tags for session notes. Read on to discover how to use tags to speed up your testing process and related activity. Tag Session Notes Testers use session notes to capture relevant assumptions, questions, or ideas that come up during a […]
5 Reasons to get Jira 5 Beta
Atlassian is excited to announce the release of Jira 5.0 beta available today! Jira 5.0 aims to make it easier to consume and to develop plugins, and here are five reasons why all Jira admins and developers should get the beta today! 1. Stable APIs! Making plugins easier to consume and develop means lowering the bar […]
Easy issue creation for external reporters: the Jira Issue Collector plugin beta
Atlassian is excited to announce the beta release of our new Issue Collector Plugin, which makes reporting issues easy. This is a must-have plugin for anyone developing a web application: users can raise issues in your Jira instance directly from within your app, without navigating or logging into Jira. A trigger link within your application […]
GreenHopper 5.8 sneak peek – managing Atlassian projects with the Rapid Board
With pending GreenHopper 5.8 release of the Rapid Board out of labs, Atlassian teams have been dogfooding like crazy and we’ve found several teams using the new board in unique ways. In this sneak peek we’ll take a look at a few examples highlighting the amazing flexibility of GreenHopper. Getting a project off the ground Atlassians love geeky project […]
Announcing Jira 4.4.1 with Shared Object Administration
Hot on the heels of Jira 4.4, one of the biggest releases in Jira history, comes – surprise! Jira 4.4.1. The big news isn’t that the point release is available – what’s most exciting are the new features! Administration of Shared Filters and Dashboards With 4.4.1, Jira admins can now manage other users’ shared filters […]
Jira 4.4 Deep Dive: Visual Workflows for All
‘Workflow’ is not a feature of Jira. Workflow is the very heart and soul of Jira – the powerhouse, the essence, the engine. This is why my final Jira 4.4 deep dive is dedicated to the lifeblood that powers the center of your development team. Visualize Your Workflow Business processes are both ‘fixed’ and ‘ever […]
Jira 5.0 Milestone 4 Early Access Preview
The Jira developers have been hard at work on version 5.0, and we’re happy to announce the availability of milestone 4 via the Early Access Program. There are lots of great Jira improvements to check out in this milestone, so read on. Focus on Integrations Jira 5.0 is focused on features for partners, plugin developers, and […]
Jira 4.4 Deep Dive: Simple, Project-Centric Administration
Last time I wrote about the end user features that I love most in Jira 4.4. All users will enjoy the new search parameters, updated activity streams and emails, and user time zones: useful information so everyone can find what they are looking for and get things done. As exciting as all the end user […]
Agile 2011 wrap-up, Atlassian Bonfire & GreenHopper Highlights
Last week, several Atlassians made the trek out to Salt Lake City, Utah for the Agile 2011 conference. Fresh on the heels of the Atlassian Bonfire 1.0 release, we met tons of excited customers hoping to see a demo and chat with Edwin Wong, Product Manager, about the product itself and the lessons Atlassian has […]
Jira 4.4 Deep Dive: Useful Information Everywhere
If you haven’t played with Jira 4.4 yet, you are missing out! As an end user of Jira every day, this is what I love most about Jira 4.4. Queries Galore A few weeks ago I highlighted the JQL functions that have been added. Search change history opens up a whole new world of data […]