G'day folks, The Bonfire Team has just released Bonfire 2.6 and it has a killer feature that will particularly excite teams testing native applications. If you are testing a Windows, Mac or Linux desktop application try the following and let us know if it solves your native application testing needs: 1) Get the image Mac, Windows and Linux have keyboard shortcuts that allow you to capture a screenshot of either the whole desktop or the active window. On Mac OS X use Cmd+Shift+Ctrl+4. Windows

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Friends, do you have trouble finding the ketchup in your own refrigerator? Do you require Google Maps just to get to the corner store? Ever want to teleport from your seat at the game to that one beer stand across the stadium that sells your favorite craft brew? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you'll be as excited as we are about this weekend's Atlassian OnDemand release - full of goodies for the navigationally-challenged and busy user! Members of the OnDemand team have

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GreenHopper 6 is the headline excitement at the moment, and Bonfire doesn't like to miss out on a party. Bonfire 2.4 jumped on the GreenHopper train with deep integration, bridging the gap between agile development and testing. Create Acceptance Tests During Planning Testing is an integral part of the agile development process, so Bonfire Test Sessions are now ingrained in your GreenHopper experience. GreenHopper's Plan and Work modes display test session details in the issue side-bar. With

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Announcing Bonfire 2.4: Break out the Marshmallows

The New GreenHopper headlines the JIRA announcements this week, but you won't want to miss Bonfire 2.4! With issue attachment improvements, a new Test Session status field, and the look and feel of the fastest JIRA yet, everyone creating JIRA issues will love Bonfire 2.4. Gather around: it's time to hand out graham crackers and chocolate to everyone on your team - get ready to create killer s'mores issues with Bonfire 2.4! Attach Anything & Everything Don't leave your browser tab to grab

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The Bonfire team has delivered some awesome features recently for any team that is conducing exploratory testing. With the release of Bonfire 2.2 we've made issue creation easier for other people in the organisation, the technical writers, product owners, designers and managers. With the Bonfire 2.2 release we are proud to introduce some great features that everyone who creates issues in JIRA will love. Only Show Selected Fields in Templates Create a Bonfire template that only includes the fields

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Since we released the awesome new screenshot annotation tool in Bonfire 2.1 we've seen a few interesting bugs raised by our internal users (for their own products, not Bonfire) Link to Issue Nav Duplicates Project Clause Klingon in Error Message   Swimlane Not Shown, AKA "The Mickey Mouse" Issue Key Wraps The Mona Lisa What Bonfire'd Art have you seen during your bug triage sessions? What has turned up during a test session? Let me know, and include

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