Monthly Archives: January 2012

(Guest blog) Enter the Defect: When In Doubt, Report the Bug

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. It's written by Richard Hale, a Senior Consultant & Director of Quality Assurance with Go2Group. As an Atlassian Platinum Expert, Go2Group provides its clients with world-class ALM and Testing services, with expertise in integration solutions for Atlassian, HP, Perforce, MuleSoft, IBM, and

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AtlasCamp Europe 2012 agenda is now live!

If you haven't heard, AtlasCamp is coming to Europe on March 22nd and 23rd -- fun times ahead! AtlasCamp is our annual developer event. Usually, we only hold this event in Half Moon Bay, California. This year we've decided to bring the party to our European developers. And today, we've posted the agenda filled with great content. This will be a great opportunity to mingle with Atlassian product managers, developers, and ecosystem members. If you're interested in what AtlasCamp is all about, checkout

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Practical JIRA Plugins – A book by Matt Doar

I’ve always thought of software development as a creative process. It’s much more than just using tools and pushing bits and bytes around. However, without the right tools and knowledge to use them, crafting software becomes very difficult. Atlassian’s plugin framework is a powerful tool for developers looking to build on top of our products. It allows you to apply one of our core values, “be the change you seek,” directly to our software. However, the power this framework provides is

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(Guest blog) On the Redistribution of Testing – Part I

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is written by Paul Gerrard, a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited and is the host of the UK Test Management Forum. It is Part 1 of a two-part blog series on the future of QA testing. Recently, there has been a spate of predictions of doom and gloom in our business.  Conference

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(Guest blog) Finding the Right Foot: Testing Efficiency Through Engineering Efficiency

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is written by Catherine Powell, a principal at Abakas, a software consulting company. At Abakas, she provides engineering management, development, testing, and process consulting services.  Ahh, the glories of software creation. We have an idea, and an idea turns into a list, and

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Anatomy Of An Atlassian ShipIt Day Win

Atlassian Ship What? At Atlassian, we work hard to ship great products to our amazing customers. Another thing we like to do is set aside some time to let our brains run wild. Every last employee has some idea in the back of their mind about a product improvement and we think it's critical to give them time to make those ideas a reality. ShipIt Say is a day, once a quarter, where we all set aside our day to day and run a 24 hour gauntlet to see what we can deliver in that time frame. It's also

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