Monthly Archives: August 2011

Atlassian Bonfire 1.2 – Supporting Sub-Tasks

Only two weeks after our first major update to Atlassian Bonfire, we're glad to announce that Bonfire 1.2 is available for download today! In Bonfire's short life so far, the most requested feature has been the ability to create sub-tasks directly from the browser extension. Sub-Tasks and Test Sessions With Bonfire 1.2, you can now collect the defects you found during a session directly as sub-tasks of the original story (or feature or bug) that you are testing. Test sessions give teams and

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (0)

JIRA 4.4 Deep Dive: Simple, Project-Centric Administration

Last time I wrote about the end user features that I love most in JIRA 4.4. All users will enjoy the new search parameters, updated activity streams and emails, and user time zones: useful information so everyone can find what they are looking for and get things done. As exciting as all the end user updates are for JIRA 4.4, project administration holds a special place in my heart. The JIRA Admin UI has gone through a complete refresh with your time in mind. Simplicity & Productivity Jumping

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (0)

Take part in the State of Agile Development survey

It's that time of year again.. the 6th annual State of Agile Development survey is currently being conducted. I encourage you to participate and share your impressions of the current state of agile development. Over the past few years JIRA and GreenHopper have been well represented in this survey. Fingers crossed this year we will jump up even further in the standings! With GreenHopper paving the way for agile development and delivery teams to implement kanban and a growing agile development

Continue reading »

Comments (0)

Kanban and Lean Development with GreenHopper’s Rapid Board

In this sneak peek of the Rapid Board we will take a look at some key features of GreenHopper, features that are going to make Kanban development and operations teams jump for joy! Existing GreenHopper customers will be over the moon too as the Rapid Board answers many of the most requested features, including the ability to visualise multiple JIRA projects at once, a separate field to track sprint information, permanent URLs for each page, ranking performance and auditing improvements, plus

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (5)

Introducing Atlassian Bonfire 1.1 – One Issue, N Screenshots

Hot on the heels of our 1.0 release of Atlassians agile testing tool, we're glad to announce the next major release of Bonfire - Bonfire 1.1 - is now available for download. Multiple screenshotsA picture is worth a thousand words, so it is said. In the words of one of our customers: "Never reported something as fast and detailed before! There's no need to explain an issue or misbehaviour to our developers again and the screenshot illustration is awesome!"But we wanted to make Bonfire even more awesome.

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (0)

Agile 2011 wrap-up, Atlassian Bonfire & GreenHopper Highlights

Last week, several Atlassians made the trek out to Salt Lake City, Utah for the Agile 2011 conference. Fresh on the heels of the Atlassian Bonfire 1.0 release, we met tons of excited customers hoping to see a demo and chat with Edwin Wong, Product Manager, about the product itself and the lessons Atlassian has learned about testing in an agile environment. Edwin also gave a lightning talk to a packed room on making the most of manual testing in a quality focused Agile team. Drink-Up My favorite

Continue reading »

Tags: ,
Comments (0)