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Atlassian Bonfire improving quality for agile dev teams

  • By Edwin Wong, JIRA Product Manager
  • About JIRA
  • On September 13, 2011
At Atlassian, we pride ourselves on the quality of our products. With the recent launch of Atlassian Bonfire, our new tool for agile and exploratory manual testing, I wanted to talk a little about our development and testing process, and how Bonfire helps solved some of our challenges with testing in our agile development teams. Challenge #1 - Culture of automated testing Like many other software startups, Atlassian started out with a strong emphasis on engineering. True to the teachings of Agile,

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Atlassian Bonfire 1.2 – Supporting Sub-Tasks

Only two weeks after our first major update to Atlassian Bonfire, we're glad to announce that Bonfire 1.2 is available for download today! In Bonfire's short life so far, the most requested feature has been the ability to create sub-tasks directly from the browser extension. Sub-Tasks and Test Sessions With Bonfire 1.2, you can now collect the defects you found during a session directly as sub-tasks of the original story (or feature or bug) that you are testing. Test sessions give teams and

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Introducing Atlassian Bonfire 1.1 – One Issue, N Screenshots

Hot on the heels of our 1.0 release of Atlassians agile testing tool, we're glad to announce the next major release of Bonfire - Bonfire 1.1 - is now available for download. Multiple screenshotsA picture is worth a thousand words, so it is said. In the words of one of our customers: "Never reported something as fast and detailed before! There's no need to explain an issue or misbehaviour to our developers again and the screenshot illustration is awesome!"But we wanted to make Bonfire even more awesome.

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Updated JIRA Project Configuration Prototype

In my last post, we talked about the new JIRA Project Configuration prototype plugin which demonstrates our designs for a new user interface for managing JIRA projects. Since then, we've been hard at work extending the prototype to show off our new approach to configuring your JIRA projects.Check out what's new We're happy to announce we've recently released further improvements to the Project Configuration prototype plugin.In the latest version, we show off our design for editing some of your project

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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 of JIRA can be intimidating; especially when it comes to setting up projects for the first time and getting off the ground.JIRA Admin Luv Continuing on our user

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Improving JIRA User Experience – Delivering with agility – Part II

  • By Edwin Wong, JIRA Product Manager
  • About JIRA
  • On September 17, 2010
For the last couple of months, the JIRA team has been hard at work on our 4.2 release. A large part of JIRA 4.2 is building on the user experience journey that we began in JIRA 4.0 last year. True to our agile approach to incrementally enhance the JIRA user experience, we have approached JIRA 4.2 user experience improvements with a large focus on the feedback that we receive from our customers. The JIRA 4.2 cycle has been a great learning process for us, and we've been improved our processes in many

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