SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today Atlassian announced the acquisition of GreenHopper for JIRA from Pyxis Technologies. With over 900 customers globally, GreenHopper for JIRA adds key agile project management capabilities to JIRA, including release planning, task management and burn down charts. agile @ Atlassian Atlassian is already well known by agile software development teams for providing tools that complement agile practices, including Continuous Integration (Bamboo), Code Reviews

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Clover interview with the Build Doctor

Earlier this week, our very own Michael Studman, Clover developer and Man in London, met up with the Julian Simpson, aka the Build Doctor, to have a beer and talk about Clover. View the video!

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Don't you hate committing code and then waiting hours to find out you broke the build? Even worse is when other people commit code at a similar time to you, and you get dragged into the 'who broke the build' witch-hunt by pure circumstance. If your build times are blowing out because of long test runs (greater than ten minutes), then you are most likely suffering from CI (Continuous Integration) latency and the above problems are real problems for you and your team. Clover can help alleviate theses problems, by optimizing both unit and acceptance tests, drastically reducing the feedback time for each commit. What follows is a case study of how Clover's Test Optimization is run on the Confluence project.

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Inside Atlassian: 7 answers about Twitter for business

Jeremiah Owyang raised some interesting thoughts over at his blog about 7 Questions Some Brands Are Asking About Twitter . To my great surprise we haven't had anyone talk on the news blog about how we're using twitter at Atlassian, so I thought I would give Jeremiah's questions a crack and hopefully provide an insight into how businesses can use twitter based on our use case. 1. Should we create multiple accounts for different divisions? How should we name them? How should the content be different? We

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This Bamboo customer story is the seventh of an 8-part blog series about why so many developers adopt continuous integration written by our guest blogger, John Ferguson Smart. Last time we talked about automating the staging and production deployments using Maven, JIRA, and Bamboo, and this week we cover clever tools to optimize Continuous Integration.

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With the release of Clover 2.5, we have taken Test Optimization to a new level with some very significant improvements. You can now take advantage of Test Optimization directly from Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA with the click of a button. We have also added Test Optimization for functional testing or acceptance testing since these types of tests tend to benefit the most. Check out what's new in Clover 2.5 and upgrade / download the latest version for a free 30-day evaluation.

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