Using GreenHopper to Automate Bamboo & Bitbucket (“What the whaaaa?…”)
There are several crude expressions to describe the heat & humidity in Dallas where the Agile2012 conference recently took place –most of which involve the words “satan” and “balls”. Which-ever is your personal favorite, just mentally insert that here. Now you get the picture. So I was pretty content to be inside at the Atlassian […]
Branch Out with Bamboo 4.2!
Branching used to scare me. Heck, it scared every developer I knew. Not that they’d admit it. But you could tell: the very mention of branches turned their faces into shades of lipstick that I would never wear. (Ok, except that one time.) They’d complete multi-hour merge marathons looking like a frat party gone wrong, and chase […]
Story branching and continuous integration: a swords-to-plowshares tale
I’ll confess to being a little intimidated by the prospect of writing this blog. See, I haven’t been active as a coder for a couple years and haven’t yet worked on a collaborative Git or Hg project (it’s on my to-do list… just haven’t swizzled it in yet). But lack of hands-on experience notwithstanding, I’m […]
Aggregated code coverage using Maven, Clover and Bamboo
This is a guest post from Alex Van Boxel, Software Engineer working at Alcatel-Lucent Antwerp. His pet interests within software are to keep the quality high, smooth running builds and the engineers productive. He believes having the complete Atlassian tool-chain certainly helps. Finally we got it working… we wanted to know what our total test coverage was on our product with all […]
Meet the New & Improved Bamboo OnDemand!
If you’re a Bamboo OnDemand subscriber, you could be forgiven for feeling a stab of jealousy every time a batch of new kick-ass features comes out for the on-premises Bamboo offering. “When, oh when, will it be my turn?”, you pined. Well, if you logged into your Bamboo OnDemand instance this morning, you already know that the […]
How Many Build Agents Does My Project Need? (a.k.a. “The $16,000 Question”)
<sirMixALotMoment> I like big builds and I cannot lie. But you other builders can’t deny when a curl comes in with an itty-bitty trace* and dependencies out of place your build’s hung! </sirMixALotMoment> I like big builds even better when they’re running efficiently and giving the team fast feedback on changes. Lately I’ve been thinking […]
Coming Soon: the New & Improved Bamboo OnDemand!
It’s been quite a while since Bamboo OnDemand was upgraded, and the wait is almost over! Later this month we’ll be bringing the hosted offering to be current with the latest offering for download, Bamboo 4.1. I sat down with Douglas Butler, product manager for our OnDemand universe, to get the scoop. SGD: First, tell […]
Building Ruby Projects with Bundler and the Bamboo Ruby Plugin
This is a guest blog post by Mark Wolfe, developer of the Ruby plugin for Bamboo. Mark is a Melbourne-based developer/systems engineer specializing in Java development in UNIX and Linux environments, with a focus on using REST and web services to enable communication between heterogeneous business systems. (Wow, that’s a mouthful!) He also has a […]
Get to Know Bamboo’s Build Expiry & Labels
There’s a little gem of a feature in Bamboo that I bet goes unnoticed by a lot of users: in-app management of all the data left behind by builds. Artifacts, logs, stats… the whole kit’ncaboodle. I love this. “Back in my day…” See, in my “former life”, I was a test automation engineer and we used […]
Top 5 Reasons Creating Jira Issues from Bamboo Makes Your Team Awesome-r
In case you missed the big announcement, the latest release of Bamboo lets you create Jira issues right from any build result page (among other swank new features). Pretty slick right? If you’re not yet a Bamboo devotee, you might be thinking “Yeah, that’s cool n’ all. But it’s not enough to make me switch […]
Let’s Get Together with Bamboo 4.1!
Let’s face it: most of us don’t like working alone. Working on a team satisfies our need for interpersonal interaction (even us nerds are social creatures!) and tends to result in a better product. But it can be challenging to keep up with everyone’s activity, and sometimes to-dos get lost in the shuffle. That’s why […]
(Guest Blog) Announcing the Bamboo-LiveRebel Plugin!
Bamboo just added another great plugin to the family: Bamboo-LiveRebel! Oliver White from ZeroTurnaround, makers of LiveRebel, is so excited about this plugin that he wrote up a little sumthin’-sumthin’ to introduce you to it. Take it away, Oliver! ZeroTurnaround is pleased to announce a plugin that is going to change your Continuous Delivery game: […]
Database Continuous Integration 101
We talk a lot about continuous integration here on the Atlassian Dev Tools blog, and many readers are bonafide CI gurus. Now that you are integrating your application code, test code, config files and deploy scripts, are you ready to take it to the next level? An increasing number of engineering shops are starting […]
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Launches Atlassian Into Space
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses a host of Atlassian products to build the software used for flight mission planning as well as modeling data sent back from satellites and Mars rovers. I sat down with David Mittman, lead software developer and “default Atlassian guy” at JPL to get a closer look at what they’re […]
I See You’re Not Automating Your Deploys… Would You Like To?
More and more teams are advancing from continuous integration into some flavor of continuous delivery, and the rise of provisioning and deploy tools makes it easier than ever to get started. While every team’s delivery pipeline will look a little different, there are some things that apply across the board. I sat down with Andrew […]