Archives for the tag: Bonfire

Test Together: Atlassian Bonfire 2 Available Today

Today we're excited to announce Atlassian Bonfire 2, connecting people and teams involved in software development and testing. Bring developers and QA closer together, and get everyone exploring your web application to create high quality issues in JIRA. Share & Join Sessions Test Sessions are the central forum in JIRA to track activity while manually testing a particular story or requirement. Bonfire 2 introduces the ability to share, find and join test sessions within JIRA and

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JIRA Best XI of 2011

If you follow me on twitter or have ever spent more than 10 minutes with me in person, you'll probably know I'm a huge football fan. I'm not talking gridiron here; I mean the kind you actually play with your feet - aka soccer. So, with my beloved Spurs having their best season in my lifetime, I felt inspired to borrow the "Best XI" format for my 2011 JIRA wrapup. 2011 was an epic year for the JIRA Family including two massive releases, the launch of a new product – Atlassian Bonfire –

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The only way to keep bugs out of your software

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 only surefire way to guarantee bug-free software is to prevent their creation in the first place. Preventing bugs starts with communication and collaboration between product management, development, and QA. Atlassian Bonfire provides the tools and lightweight structure to foster discussion and

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Making Bonfire: How Atlassians live ‘Be the change you seek’

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. What do you get when you combine a bit of motivation to learn javascript, a not-so-great metric on the time it takes to create bug reports, and a two year old boy? The slickest new tool in the exploratory testing box: Atlassian Bonfire. Andrew Prentice, QA lead at Atlassian, started a long

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Atlassian Bonfire 1.7 Available – Share Templates with your Team

Atlassian Bonfire 1.7 is here with the highest voted feature request in Bonfire's short history: sharable templates! Sharable templates are just one more way Bonfire empowers teams who test. Read on to learn more about the exciting new features Bonfire 1.7 brings for exploratory testing within teams. Share & Favorite Templates Templates speed up data entry and ensure quality, consistent bug reports by pre-populating repetitive data and giving context and structure to whomever is reporting bugs.

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Bonfire 1.4 Available: Introducing Tags for Session Notes

Atlassian Bonfire 1.4 is here, helping teams organize information gathered during manual testing with new tags for session notes. Read on to discover how to use tags to speed up your testing process and related activity. Tag Session Notes Testers use session notes to capture relevant assumptions, questions, or ideas that come up during a test session. Bonfire 1.4 brings a new level of organization around this information with tags. Tags are an easy way to flag information during testing, and

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