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Calling All Android Devs – Help Us Help You
Since the release of Jira Mobile Connect we’ve had almost nothing but positive reaction from mobile developers. They love the ability to collect feedback from their end users – including custom data, screenshots, voice audio, and crash reports – and have it show up directly into their favorite bug tracker, Jira. I say “almost” because there is one small […]
Moving Confluence from Subversion to git
Three months ago, the Confluence team switched from Subversion to git, just in time for our 4.1 release. In Confluence, git, rename, merge oh my… we talked about the problems we encountered with merges across branches that had lots of renames. In this post, we take a step back to look at the tools we used in order […]
SharePoint Connector 1.5 Released: Includes Support for Confluence 4
The latest release of the Confluence SharePoint Connector is loaded with new features that help make the static content you store in SharePoint easier to embed within the dynamic content you create and share in Confluence. Access Content in SharePoint From Confluence, Fast Confluence 4.0 delivered a new intuitive editing interface that lets users create rich content with extraordinary speed […]
Testing and Bad Smells: When to Investigate Potential Bugs
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. A condensed version of this post was published on January 10, 2012. We’re now reposting the complete article. Something Smells Fishy You’re testing a […]
Mission Control: Advanced Attachment Management in Confluence with Arsenale Lockpoint
This is a guest post by David Goldstein of Arsenale, developer of the Arsenale Lockpoint and Arsenale Invisible Ink plugins for Confluence. (Update: in November 2018, the Lockpoint product was acquired and it is now Cenote Lockpoint.) The Cow, The Pig, The Rooster and the Tipping Point Confluence excels as a rapid and lightweight content creation and sharing platform. […]
Continuous Delivery with Bamboo Stages
Bamboo’s biggest strength lies in its ability to give developers control over their entire workflow – all the way from testing to production. With Bamboo, those difficult tasks, such as releasing or deploying software, are easy to automate using a practice called Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery Continuous Delivery is the process whereby all the steps from code […]
(Case Study) mgm technology partners uses Jira to connect development projects directly to customers
About mgm technology partners mgm is a medium sized software solution company that defines its success by its contribution to the success of its clients’ businesses. Founded in 1994, mgm is based in Munich, with about 300 employees throughout Europe. Alexander Weiss has been with the company since its migration from Bugzilla to Jira in […]
AtlasCamp 2011 Videos
Remember AtlasCamp 2011 (that was so last year)? I remember promising that we would have the videos available soon after the event. So much for that. For 2012, I resolve not to make any crazy promises that I can’t keep. Something came up and sadly the videos got pushed to the backlog. The good thing […]
Countdown of the Top 11 Team Calendars Features in 2011
It’s barely been six months since we released Team Calendars 1.0 for Confluence and we’ve been thrilled by its uptake. 2,635 teams around the world – including Facebook, Skype, and Sony – now have a single source of truth for managing team leave, tracking projects, and planning events. 8 Releases in 6 Months A new […]
Jira Best XI of 2011
If you follow me on twitter or have ever spent more than 10 minutes with me in person, you’ll probably know I’m a huge football fan. I’m not talking gridiron here; I mean the kind you actually play with your feet – aka soccer. So, with my beloved Spurs having their best season in my lifetime, I […]
The Starting XI of 2011 – Confluence Edition
While 2011 might be known as the ‘Year of the Rabbit’, many will remember it as the year Confluence paved the way for the future of online collaboration. 2011 was the year we satisfied more than 2,235 of our customers’ votes for new features and improvements with three of our biggest releases, ever. 2011 was […]
Lo-fi wallboard lets you view build status in the cloud
Here at Atlassian, we have wallboards everywhere. On my team, we have a wallboard that cycles through screens showing the build status, the number of open Jira issues assigned to team members, how many pending code reviews we have, and relevant deadlines. We recently had a ShipIt Day. ShipIt Days are a chance for developers […]
The only way to keep bugs out of your software
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. The only surefire way to guarantee bug-free software is to prevent their creation in the first place. Preventing bugs starts with communication and collaboration […]
(Case Study) Telestream uses Jira & Fisheye to connect development to the rest of the business
As readers of this blog already know, Atlassian makes a lot of videos! Our YouTube channel grows larger with every company event and product release, and one of the tools we use for screen capture style product demos is Screenflow, made by Telestream. We love Screenflow, and recently Telestream asked us to participate in a […]
(Case Study) Six Feet Up Uses ShipIt Day to Motivate and Empower Employees
This post is part of our ShipIt Day “In the Wild” series, highlighting stories from other companies who’ve already taken their own whack at ShipIt Day. Past installments have featured Lateral, Eli Lilly and Ambientia; this week’s post features Six Feet Up. In celebration of the LAST DAY(!) for submissions to win a ShipIt Day […]