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Easy Website Bug Reporting with BugDigger
This is a guest post by Radomir Mladenovic of BugDigger, a service that files website bugs to Jira with a single click. Software developers working on websites always want detailed bug reports, complete with browser information and the steps to reproduce the bug. But filing a detailed bug report takes time and dedication. Often less […]
Webinar: Zephyr & Jira for Test Management
On January 18th we will host a webinar with Zephyr on using Jira for Test Management. Zephyr and its optimized, true 2-way integration with Jira provides teams with more testing time. There may never be enough testing time, but Zephyr and Jira are providing teams with close to 100 more hours of testing time per […]
Sneak peek: New prototype for managing Jira projects
One of Jira’s biggest strengths has been its flexibility when it comes to setting up a project that maps to your processes. From issue types to permissions, fields to workflows, Jira affords a huge amount of customisability to let you tweak how issues behave. However, with all this power and flexibility, the project administration interface […]
Spartez MeetingRoom: Virtual Meeting Space for Your Team
This is a guest blog post submitted by Spartez, highlighting MeetingRoom, a virtual meeting space, and its Confluence and Jira integration. Communication is the Key to Efficient Teamwork Software development, as well as most other creative activities, requires effective team collaboration. Gains from high bandwidth communication among team members are huge and organizations that facilitate […]
The Trendy Practice of Code Review – AccuRev and Crucible
This is a guest blog post submitted by Oleg Vistev. Oleg manages the Applications Group at AccuRev, a leader in scaling Agile across the enterprise. AccuRev, an Atlassian partner, offers AccuRev Software Configuration Management and AgileCycle, an Application Lifecycle Management suite. @font-face { font-family: “Arial”; }@font-face { font-family: “Calibri”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in […]
The Best of Jira 2010
The Year in Review Similar to the GreenHopper and Confluence teams, 2010 was a very exciting year for the Jira team. We doubled the size of the dev team – forcing us to move into a new building across the street – adding a new skillsets and evolving new roles. The team adopted Scrum, with […]
15 Cool Plugins of 2010
We’re fortunate to have an amazing developer ecosystem building useful and powerful Atlassian plugins, each plugin providing additional functionality and features that make our products better. In the spirit of the new year, I thought I’d share a few cool plugins that were introduced in 2010. But creating a short list of cool plugins is […]
The Best of GreenHopper 2010
It’s been a productive year for GreenHopper. Let’s take a look at what the team has accomplished in the past 12 months. The year of seven releases Appropriately, the GreenHopper team is the most agile at Atlassian, a fact that is reflected in their densely-packed release timeline from 2010: UI Evolution The face of the […]
Jira 4.2 Deep Dive – Keyboard Shortcuts
This post is the third in a series of “deep dives” into the latest version of Jira. The first posts talked about the Jira experience and operation dialogs. Stay tuned to the Jira Blog for more details on Jira 4.2. Jira keyboard shortcuts were introduced for global navigation and issue actions in Jira 4 and […]
5 Essential Confluence Features for Technical Writers
In this post we share five features that will dramatically improve the readability and effectiveness of your technical documentation in Confluence.
Jira 4.3 Milestone 3 – Dashboards and Gadgets
Jira 4.3 EAP 3 has left the building just in time for Christmas. Faster Dashboards In this milestone build you will see our efforts around improving the performance of the dashboard. The dashboard is the first page you go to in Jira and it is the information hub. It should be as fast we […]
Git Support for Bamboo – Now in Beta
Just in time for the holiday season, the Bamboo team is excited to announce the beta release of the Atlassian Bamboo Git Plugin. We believe distributed version control represents the future of all source control therefore we introduced out-of-the-box Mercurial support in Bamboo 2.7. Git, another hugely popular DVCS, has been supported only via 3rd […]
AtlasCamp 2010: Modular Plugins, Plugin Security, Advanced Javascript
Today we’re concluding our tour of the AtlasCamp 2010 videos with three great talks: Big Module Plugins; Securing Your Plugin; and Using Advanced Javascript in Atlassian Plugins. Last week we saw videos on marketing a commercial plugin, performance for Jira plugins, and the Atlassian Platform. Happy holidays, and see you at AtlasCamp 2011! Details aren’t […]
Missiles + Failed Builds = Bamboo Punisher
Question: What do missiles, failed builds and developers have in common? Answer: Bamboo As we quickly learned in the recent Ultimate Wallboard contest, there is no shortage of ways to notify your team of events that require immediate action. It was apparent that development teams wanted to put focus on failed builds and the developers […]