Monthly Archives: March 2011

JIRA 4.3 Deep Dive – Confluence Integration

With the recent releases of JIRA 4.3, Atlassian's bug and issue tracker, and Confluence 3.5, Atlassian's wiki and collaboration tool, we introduced a game changing feature called Application Links. What does it do? It makes it incredibly easy to connect your Atlassian applications together. Why would you want to do that? Connecting JIRA to Confluence via Application Links gives you some killer integration features between the two applications. Bringing JIRA and Confluence Closer Together My work

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Improved Agile Testing in GreenHopper and JIRA with Kalistick

This is a guest post by Marc Rambert of Kalistick, a cloud service that x-rays applications for quality and testing assessments and pushes results to JIRA and GreenHopper. Continuously delivering working software requires collaboration between developers and testers to make sure the correct tests pass before a given deployment. GreenHopper and JIRA support this collaboration with a clear view of user stories included in each sprint and release. However, they do not provide a snapshot of the risks

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JIRA 4.3 Deep Dive – Search Improvements

Last week's release of JIRA 4.3 included a bunch of additions and improvements to search that make it faster and easier to find what you're looking for. JQL Improvements JIRA 4.3 brings lots of new functionality to JIRA Query Language (JQL). Search change history This release introduces a new operator to JQL: "was". The "was" operator is unique, as it's the only JQL operator that lets you explore an issue's past. Using JIRA's default workflow as an example, let's say you want to find all issues

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Introducing JIRA 4.3 – Integration Made Easy

I'm excited to announce the general availability of JIRA 4.3. Combined with today's release of Confluence 3.5, it's never been easier to connect JIRA with your enterprise wiki. JIRA 4.3 is packed with search and usability improvements, plus loads of features guaranteed to make every JIRA administrator smile. GreenHopper 5.5 is also available today with compatibility to JIRA 4.3, as well as several usability improvements and a sexy new task board gadget. Integrating

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Making Toast with JIRA at SXSW

If you're heading to SXSW 2011, be sure to drop by the Praecipio booth to get the scoop on how to make toast using JIRA. Yes, you read that correctly.. I think Chris Pepe is taking information radiators to a whole new level with this one. Check it out: Looks like that setup has room for a few more appliances. Can't wait to see what they hook up next..

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Plugin Profile: Drag and drop JIRA attachments

One of my favorite features in Confluence is the ability to drag and drop attachments onto the page. It just feels natural after years of dragging and dropping on the desktop - not to mention the time saved by the process. Drag and drop in JIRA There's no native support for dragging and dropping attachments in JIRA, but luckily, Atlassian's own Wojciech Seliga and Pawel Niewiadomskihas have written a plugin to remedy that.   Just drag and drop your files onto the "drop zone" to attach

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