Breaking the Build: agile, continuous integration, and the Light

This guest post from Kate Carruthers is a companion to the dev-oriented post about building the Bamboo plugin, which was published last week. Kate has worked in software development and web since the dark ages. In more recent times she's been a scrum coach and agile project manager. She recently saw the Light and though it would be fun to join the Moore's Cloud team. In a past life I used to manage globally dispersed web development teams.  When we used to run waterfall style projects then ‘breaking

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Shedding Light on Build Breakages

I've been following Mark Pesce on Twitter ever since I watched his brilliant closing keynote at Web Directions South in 2008. A few months ago he started hinting at a #sekritproject in his tweets. I had no idea what it was back then but I didn't have to wait long to find out. He unveiled the Light by Moore'sCloud on the 5th of October - I was captivated both by how it looked and the latent potential it embodied. Was this the first "thing" in the Internet of Things? A few weeks later the Light was

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Go Extra-Agile – Customize Automated Test Suites on the Fly

Making releases a "non-event" is one of the goals many teams aspire to when they adopt agile development practices.  That might mean releasing several times daily, or (more likely) at the end of each iteration. Either way, most teams eventually normalize on some flavor of continuous delivery. A common flavor is to build the code and deploy it to a test environment several times a day, then pause at that point in the pipeline.  Every few days (or weeks), you look through the builds that passed all

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Clover Goes Mobile!

The Android market is rapidly increasing, being one of the most popular platforms, not only for customers, but also as a platform for developers to create their apps. Just few numbers: Google Play just hit 25 billion downloads in total (15 billion downloads in the last year) over 670,000 applications available on Google Play over 100'000 registered developers on Google Play over 500 million activations of Android devices, 1.3 million being added every day Taking into account this rapidly

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Turn the “Day From Hell” into a Day Things Go Well with Bamboo 4.3

 9:00 am - Ahh, release day. You've run your test suite with each commit, and a green build has soaked on Staging for two days. Your application relies on a 3rd-party system to process credit card transactions - a critical dependency for your revenue stream. Your team didn't make any changes during soak time, but you don't know whether your credit card processing provider did. Worried? Nah, not you. You use multiple build triggers to run your tests with each commit, as well as nightly. So

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Re-Running This, Re-Running That… coming up in Bamboo 4.3!

Hello, In this post I'd like to highlight a few features in Bamboo related to... um... "re-running". So, what is rerunning and why do I find it interesting enough to write up a blog post for it? Let's consider a hypothetical situation, where you - The Developer - are supposed to implement yet another small&shiny feature in the application you're working on with your colleagues. At some point in time you create a feature-branch for your code, you start working on the feature and some time

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