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JIRA Development Cookbook — A book by Jobin Kuruvilla

Jobin Kuruvilla, an experienced JIRA consultant and plugin developer, set out on the ambitious task to write a detailed and thorough book about JIRA plugin development. The result? A well crafted 450+ page book that starts by introducing the reader to Atlassian’s plugin framework and ends with useful recipes usually gained only by weathered experience. It’s a great read for Atlassian plugin developers at all levels. Bits of Goodness The JIRA Development Cookbook is filled with bits of great

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What is Version Control: Diffs and Patches

Much of the blog content was written in conjunction with Steve Losh. Steve is a programmer, photographer, blues dancer and musician. Check out Steve's projects to see some of the cool things he has worked on, or jump over to his Bitbucket account and get straight to the source. Making the Switch to Distributed Version Control Many individuals, teams, and organizations are thinking about making the switch to distributed version control systems a la Git and Mercurial (Hg). This is the first post

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(Guest blog) On the Redistribution of Testing – Part 2

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.  This is a guest blog post by Paul Gerrard, a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited and is the host of the UK Test Management Forum. It is Part 2 of a two-part blog series on the future of QA testing. In Part I of this article on the Redistribution of Testing, I suggested there were four

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(Guest blog) When 4/5 Dentists Agree, Why Do 4/5 Testers Disagree?

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 Lanette Creamer, an Agile testing consultant involved in software testing since 1999. Testers are prone to argue about anything. Just last night, at the Selenium Meetup, a fellow tester, Gary Masnica said, "There is nothing worse than listening to two testers argue. Before

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JIRA 5 RubyGem

One of the key features of the upcoming JIRA 5 release is the revamped REST API. This API gives you full access to creating, reading, updating, and deleting issues as well as other metadata related to issues. REST APIs provide for an easy and lightweight way to integrate with other apps using basic HTTP and JSON libraries. However, some developers might find it more useful to work on a client library that has a tighter interface to these REST APIs. Our friends at Trineo decided to build a RubyGem

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(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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