Moving at the Speed of Dev – Fisheye & Crucible 2.10 Now Available!
The fact that you’re reading this is highly suspicious. Wouldn’t you rather be coding right now? Are you really a developer, or are you some alien life form in an over-worn “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1” t-shirt masquerading as a coder? See, we’ve been made to understand that, more than anything, devs just want to get back to coding. […]
3 Reasons We Love Custom Revision Builds
About once a day, I wish I could go back and ask a question differently or pursue an opportunity that has passed me by. Oh, to hop in a DeLorian and try the deli’s special of the day instead of ordering my usual ol’ turkey ruben! It was in that spirit that Bamboo satisfied a popular […]
Your 2013 Continuous Delivery Resolution Just Got Easier
This is a guest post by Krishnan Badrinarayanan – product marketing manager for LiveRebel. A Java geek turned product marketer, Krishnan is well versed with issues that plague IT teams and is passionate about applying technology to solve their challenges. As a SaaS vendor, provider of online apps, or online retailer you already understand how important, […]
Super Powerful Moms: reflections from the Girl Geek Dinner
The tech world has been paying a lot of attention to women like Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer lately – moms in high-profile, high-powered careers. Are they “ruining it” for working parents everywhere by not taking maternity leave? (A notion I find utterly ridiculous.) Can they possibly be good parents while working so hard? (Pretty sure they […]
Top 10 Bamboo Features of 2012 (part 2)
…and we’re back! Just one work-week until Santa (who adopted Kanban last year, and thankfully the elves are not in crunch mode). Let’s kick it off by resuming our Top 10 countdown. #5: Build from Custom Revision It’s pretty common to have Bamboo poll your repository for changes every 3-5 minutes. And it’s pretty common […]
Top 10 Bamboo Features of 2012
Oh December, how we love thee… sugar plums dance upon office snack tables, Hollywood finally releases the year’s Oscar contenders to theaters, and you can’t so much as refill your egg-nog without tripping on a Top 10 list. So in the grand tradition of news anchors, the Billboard charts and every teen magazine in publication, […]
Breaking the Build: agile, continuous integration, and the Light
This guest post from Kate Carruthers is a companion to the dev-oriented post about building the Bamboo plugin, which was published last week. Kate has worked in software development and web since the dark ages. In more recent times she’s been a scrum coach and agile project manager. She recently saw the Light and though it would be […]
Go Extra-Agile – Customize Automated Test Suites on the Fly
Making releases a “non-event” is one of the goals many teams aspire to when they adopt agile development practices. That might mean releasing several times daily, or (more likely) at the end of each iteration. Either way, most teams eventually normalize on some flavor of continuous delivery. A common flavor is to build the code […]
Turn the “Day From Hell” into a Day Things Go Well with Bamboo 4.3
9:00 am – Ahh, release day. You’ve run your test suite with each commit, and a green build has soaked on Staging for two days. Your application relies on a 3rd-party system to process credit card transactions – a critical dependency for your revenue stream. Your team didn’t make any changes during soak time, but […]
Bamboo OnDemand & Heroku Join Forces for Cloud-tinuous Integration!
Cloud purists, rejoice! Last month we were tickled pink to announce the Heroku Deploy plugin for Bamboo. Today we’re tickled once again because the plugin is now included in Bamboo OnDemand! Heroku + Bamboo is a powerful resource for teams using feature branches or a branch-per-JIRA-issue workflow. Instead of leaning on IT to create environments […]
New Goodies Coming to OnDemand!
Friends, do you have trouble finding the ketchup in your own refrigerator? Do you require Google Maps just to get to the corner store? Ever want to teleport from your seat at the game to that one beer stand across the stadium that sells your favorite craft brew? If you answered “yes” to any of […]
So You Want to Run Tests in Parallel… now what??
Lemme start by saying two things to regular readers: 1) “Thanks for tuning in and dropping lots of thoughtful comments!” and 2) “You’ve probably noticed me getting all up in your area codes about fast feedback lately, what with the artifact sharing and inner/outer loops n’ all.” Yeah, it’s been a bit of an obsession ever since the Agile2012 […]
Announcing the Heroku Deploy Plugin for Bamboo!
You know what I love? Crawling into a bed made up with freshly-laundered sheets. Ahhh…! You know what I hate? Doing laundry and making my bed. Kind of a tricky spot to be in. A lot of people feel pretty much the same way about deploying software. I mean, how great is it to fire […]
Asynchronous Build Tiers for Faster Feedback
“Asynchronous Build Tiers”… could I possibly think of a dryer, technical-for-the-sake-of-sounding-technical term for what I’m about to describe? Geez. I’m almost embarrassed. It’s actually an exciting concept, though. Let’s say your team commits code changes Chicago-style (early & often). Let’s also say that you have several layers of automated tests: unit tests, integration/API level tests, and UI-based tests that, […]
Artifact Passing for Agile Teams
August isn’t officially “Agile Month”, but with so much of my attention focused on the Agile2012 conference held a couple weeks ago, that’s what it feels like. So I’ve been blowing the dust off my trusty ol’ Scrum Master hat and thinking more about team processes lately. When teams decide to go agile, they do so with […]