Monthly Archives: September 2011

5 Reasons to get JIRA 5 Beta

Atlassian is excited to announce the release of JIRA 5.0 beta available today! JIRA 5.0 aims to make it easier to consume and to develop plugins, and here are five reasons why all JIRA admins and developers should get the beta today! 1. Stable APIs! Making plugins easier to consume and develop means lowering the bar for plugin adoption - making it easier to find, promote, install, and upgrade plugins. Stable APIs make this easier, whether you're a commercial plugin developer and want more customers,

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Agile Testing for JIRA with Bonfire and Enterprise Tester

This is the first post in a series of blog posts stepping through the process, metrics, and common traps you can fall into when testing. This blog specifically provides an introduction to agile testing strategies using Atlassian Bonfire and Enterprise Tester. Meet The Tools Bonfire and Enterprise Tester provide some great options for Agile testing with JIRA. We're really excited about both of them, so have thought we'd give you a roundup of the features and functionality available to all of you

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Easy issue creation for external reporters: the JIRA Issue Collector plugin beta

Atlassian is excited to announce the beta release of our new Issue Collector Plugin, which makes reporting issues easy. This is a must-have plugin for anyone developing a web application: users can raise issues in your JIRA instance directly from within your app, without navigating or logging into JIRA. A trigger link within your application will open a dialog box, where your users can submit details. The details entered are then submitted to your JIRA instance in the background. There are

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GreenHopper 5.8 sneak peek – managing Atlassian projects with the Rapid Board

With pending GreenHopper 5.8 release of the Rapid Board out of labs, Atlassian teams have been dogfooding like crazy and we've found several teams using the new board in unique ways. In this sneak peek we'll take a look at a few examples highlighting the amazing flexibility of GreenHopper. Getting a project off the ground Atlassians love geeky project names, and Merlin is no exception. The formal goal of Project Merlin is to 'provide solutions that help Atlassian serve our customers better

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When does a customer’s problem become a plugin?

  • By Kyle Miller, Integrations Marketing Manager
  • JIRA
  • On September 20, 2011
This is a guest blog post by Amanda Susini of Valiantys. In this post Amanda will explain the SQLFeed plugin, how it integrates with JIRA, and why you should give it a try.   When 3 customers come to you with similar problems that a generic solution can resolve. JIRA is a pretty damn good product we all know that, and it's so versatile there seems to be no limit to the many different uses people make of it. However as always when you've got a fab product in your hands you want it

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Instant issue creation with Atlassian Bonfire

In the short few months Atlassian Bonfire has been available, it's clear to see it's already having a huge impact on the way we work here at Atlassian. And this doesn't just apply to how our agile development teams focus on quality or execute session-based testing, Bonfire has changed the way many people work within our extended technical teams.Everyone, from the product managers to the marketing team to the front line customer service teams, are finding Bonfire incredibly valuable for instant issue

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