Bonfire 2.1 – Amazing Annotations for Agile Defect Prevention

Our goal with Bonfire is to help you deliver quality working software to your customers. Agile defect prevention is an approach whereby you find and address bugs before your customers experience them. Bonfire facilitates agile defect prevention and provides confidence that you are delivering quality working software to your customers. Bonfire helps you deliver quality working software. Atlassian Bonfire 2.1, available today, makes everyone a professional when it comes to reporting bugs. Further,

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Bonfire 2 Deep Dive – The Art of Issue Creation

Atlassian Bonfire makes it easy to create JIRA issues without ever leaving your browser tab. Chances are you probably create similar issues often, and you know how painstaking the repetitive data entry can be. This is especially true if you have JIRA set up a certain way - like working with a specific project or component, referring to a set of saved searches and dashboards all the time, or using labels to categorize issues. Thankfully, using Bonfire ensures no details is missed and new issues

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Bonfire 2 Deep Dive – Ensure Consistent Bug Reports from Remote or Outsourced Testers

Atlassian Bonfire 2 makes it easy to test together, whether you sit across the room or across the globe from the rest of your team. You may work with consultants, teams at partner companies, or outsource development or testing. Quality issue creation from people outside your team is important to keep software development projects on track and keep velocity high. Consistent Communication The best way to keep velocity high and projects moving forward is to minimize the back-and-forth discussion clarifying

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New GreenHopper! 5.9.1 with more Rapid Board for Scrum features

It wasn't long ago that we released GreenHopper 5.9 and introduced the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we're giving early adopters of the Rapid Board for Scrum even more to play with, specifically:   Add stories to an in-progress sprint Drag and drop the issue in Plan mode onto the active sprint and it will show up in your current sprint.     See issue Attachments in the Detail View Following on from

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Bonfire 2 Deep Dive: Shared Sessions & Blitz Testing

Atlassian Bonfire 2 makes it easier than ever to collaborate with teammates around test activity. Software development involves the entire company, and collaborative testing is one of the ways Atlassian connects people across teams working together to make better software. Share & Join Sessions Bonfire's Test Sessions are the central place in JIRA to track testing of a specific requirement or defect, and now when you create a session, you can mark it as shared. Once you start the session, anyone

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What’s your Testing Mission?

Sessions are a great and simple way to organize testing tasks. They are nothing more than dedicated time to test a feature with the intent of fulfilling a mission. In fact, because the division of a task into smaller pieces is so intuitive, we often forget the importance of the mission itself. In this blog post I will talk about different types of test missions to keep in your arsenal and how you can leverage them in your testing. I assume some knowledge of what is exploratory testing and the

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