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Watch the Summit 2012 presentations
The curtain has gone down on Atlassian Summit 2012, the dust has settled, and the giant Atlassian logo has been transferred from the conference center to his new home at Atlassian San Francisco. If you were at the event and found yourself torn between which session to see, or if you missed Summit altogether this […]
Lean Quality Assurance At XING: Using Jira To Manage Test Cases
XING is the social network for business professionals. They are building and running a platform for over 12 million users where professionals from all kinds of industries can meet up, find jobs, connect with colleagues, find new assignments, identify business partners, seek out experts and generate new business ideas. The challenges with quality assurance at XING […]
Summit Aftermath – My 5 Highlights
I’ve been to a lot of conferences over the last year, as part of my job as an Atlassian Ambassador in Europe. Actually, I’ve been to our very own user conference, Atlassian Summit in San Francisco. Last year’s Summit was definitely one of my highlights and this years lived up to the hype. Working from Germany makes the event extra […]
ShipIt Day: Out with the Old, In with the New
In May, we announced that our innovation day had creeped on to the radar of none other than [redacted] Corp itself. After they asked us (kindly!) to discontinue using their brand in connection with our event, we put out an open call for help finding a new name for our hack day that still retained […]
Support Highlights from Summit
During Atlassian Summit 2012 our Legendary Support team was regularly staffing an extremely popular AtlasBar and presenting on how to get the best out of Atlassian’s products and support. Below are a few highlights from this year’s event: Scaling a Global Support Team to Resolve 1,500 Requests a Week Using Kanban and GreenHopper [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmq9LslKC-o&w=560&h=315] […]
Zen Foundation Sparks True Love with Confluence
This post is dedicated to Stepstone Technologies, the creators of Zen Foundation, a tool that delivers attractive and easy-to-use collaboration for non-technical online communities. With support for strong branding and flexible graphic design, Zen puts rich layout and presentation options at your fingertips. Zen provides new users the safety and freedom to experiment, while improving the quality of […]
Jira 5.1 sneak peek – Growing in the Enterprise
Atlassian is growing, and a big focus in Jira development has been our continued work on performance and scale. We gave a preview of some of the exciting stats at Summit, and I’d like to share those announcements as you gear up for the Jira 5.1 release coming soon! Enterprise at Summit At Atlassian Summit […]
Save Time, Have a Well Trained Team with Atlassian University
In case you missed Summit, our annual user conference, last month I spoke about using Atlassian University to get teams up to speed on Atlassian products, and at the same time deflecting (stupid) questions off admins. If you have 10 minutes, watch the video below. University, our training program with videos and step-by-step interactive tutorials, can quickly train […]
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 […]
Equivalence Partitioning in Practice – Part 2
Introduction Yesterday in Part 1, we looked at what equivalence partitioning is and how we use it in Jira QA. In Part 2, we will cover how equivalence partitioning might explain some odd behaviour you’ve noticed from your friendly neighbourhood QA/test engineers. Explaining QA behaviour Here are some symptoms of equivalence partitioning that you may have […]
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 […]
Team Calendars 2.3 – A Birthday Loaded with Presents for Everyone
It’s our birthday, and we can cry if we want to! That’s right, this past week, Team Calendars for Confluence has officially turned one in human years. Just like there are 7 dog years to a single human year, Team Calendars boasts an even higher rate of 14 to 1. This release marks our 14th release in the last […]
Equivalence Partitioning in Practice – Part 1
The Challenge When testing even the most basic user-facing functionality, the set of possible test cases is almost unlimited. Let’s say we’re testing a form in Jira where you set the current user’s display name. If we look at it from a completely black-box perspective, the possible test cases are something like: Total test cases […]
Getting feedback on the Atlassian product documentation
This is a post written by Paul Watson, an Atlassian technical writer, as part of an ongoing series written by the technical writing team, exploring the latest techniques in technical communication. We’ll write about our projects, experiments and ideas, and we’ll share the techniques we use to give our customers the sweetest documentation in the […]
Satisfying Build Engineering Customers (Pt 2)
I’m excited! Back when I talked about Satisfying the Customers of BuildEng team I talked about ensuring that we communicate to our customers that we’ve seen the issues that they have created by Triaging those issues quickly. This is really important, it provides our customers quick feedback on the issue that they have raised so they don’t […]