GreenHopper 6 is the headline excitement at the moment, and Bonfire doesn't like to miss out on a party. Bonfire 2.4 jumped on the GreenHopper train with deep integration, bridging the gap between agile development and testing. Create Acceptance Tests During Planning Testing is an integral part of the agile development process, so Bonfire Test Sessions are now ingrained in your GreenHopper experience. GreenHopper's Plan and Work modes display test session details in the issue side-bar. With

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Announcing Bonfire 2.4: Break out the Marshmallows

The New GreenHopper headlines the JIRA announcements this week, but you won't want to miss Bonfire 2.4! With issue attachment improvements, a new Test Session status field, and the look and feel of the fastest JIRA yet, everyone creating JIRA issues will love Bonfire 2.4. Gather around: it's time to hand out graham crackers and chocolate to everyone on your team - get ready to create killer s'mores issues with Bonfire 2.4! Attach Anything & Everything Don't leave your browser tab to grab

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Introducing the newest versions of FishEye and Crucible. Together, FishEye and Crucible put development teams into the fast lane as they collaborate on code – sharing, visualizing and viewing code repositories, as well as performing collaborative peer code reviews. FishEye 2.8 and Crucible 2.8 make code browsing and sharing whiplash fast – regardless of whether you're using Git, SVN or another SCM. Both FishEye and Crucible deliver tight integration with JIRA, Atlassian's project tracking tool,

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Looking for a way to connect your Git or Mercurial repositories to your JIRA issues? Atlassian has recently released a new update to the JIRA DVCS Connector to help you connect your JIRA issues to your DVCS repositories on Bitbucket. For those who don't know, Bitbucket is Atlassian's free code hosting tool for Git and Mercurial repos. So, what is this JIRA DVCS Connector? For those new to this useful plugin, the JIRA DVCS Connector lets you Track commits, monitor source code edits,

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This is a guest post from Alex Van Boxel, Software Engineer working at Alcatel-Lucent Antwerp. His pet interests within software are to keep the quality high, smooth running builds and the engineers productive. He believes having the complete Atlassian tool-chain certainly helps.   Finally we got it working... we wanted to know what our total test coverage was on our product with all the effort we did over the last year by adding new tests. It wasn't easy because once you leave the

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The Tool is the Easy Part - What about the Processes? The FishEye team was the first team at Atlassian to make the switch to DVCS, and while some Atlassians had previous DVCS experience, quite a few had not yet used it in the workplace with a medium-size team of developers before. We looked for help around the web, but there wasn't a lot of people sharing their experiences at the time. We found many resources like "How do I push a branch in Git?" or "How do I pull from multiple remotes in Mercurial?",

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