Archives for the tag: automation

Being an efficiency and productivity freak, I always try to streamline and automate repetitive tasks. As such, my antennas went up immediately when I started hearing about Provisioning frameworks; I began to incorporate them more and more in my development workflow. A perfect opportunity to take advantage of this came up while ramping up as Developer Advocate here at Atlassian. Have you heard of Vagrant yet? It is awesome. Why? It automates much of the boilerplate work we developers have to endure

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(Guest Blog) Announcing the Bamboo-LiveRebel Plugin!

Bamboo just added another great plugin to the family: Bamboo-LiveRebel!  Oliver White from ZeroTurnaround, makers of LiveRebel, is so excited about this plugin that he wrote up a little sumthin'-sumthin' to introduce you to it.  Take it away, Oliver! ZeroTurnaround is pleased to announce a plugin that is going to change your Continuous Delivery game: the Bamboo-LiveRebel plugin, available at no charge on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. More Bacon for Your Automation According to a recent

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Boost Your Build Automation with Artifact Sharing in Bamboo

If you've been following the recent posts about using Bamboo to set up a continuous delivery pipeline, you have probably noticed us talking about build artifacts.  These are the products of the build itself: JARs, WARs, code coverage reports, test results, javadocs, rdocs... the list goes on n' on.   In this post, we'll walk through some tips and tricks to keep in mind when adding artifact sharing to your Plans. The Art of the Artifact Sharing build artifacts within your Plan is a great way to

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The Bamboo Task Master Challenge – The Winner

The Bamboo Task Master Challenge provided the community with some great new Bamboo Task plugins, but there could only be one winner. The Task Master The winner, the champ, the Bamboo Task Master is... This was a very close vote and a huge congrats goes out to Maxim Kuzmich and the Stiltsoft team. What does the Bamboo VMware Task do? Many Bamboo users utilize virtual environments (VMware) to help power their CI process, but they do not need to be powered on all the time. By adding this

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Performance Testing meets Continuous Integration – Bamboo and Blitz

This is a guest blog post by Kowsik Guruswamy, CTO for Mu Dynamics, the company that powers Blitz. Kowsik is a self proclaimed cloud junkie that can reconcile big data with packets. A Pig of a Problem We all know what happens when your app performs like a pig. You lose users, customers and revenue. Your app is slow, the failing pigs don’t amuse your customers and you hear about it as the trending topic on Twitter. In most cases you don’t even know that it’s slow until you push the app into

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Clover 2.4 released, now test smarter with Test Optimization

New Clover 2.4 release introduces Test Optimization to the essential Java code coverage tool. Automatically streamline your builds and automated testing to get the most from the tests that matter without waiting for those that don't. Learn more at http://www.atlassian.com/clover.

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