Atlassian Developer Blog: Comments

Comment on "Code Review in Agile Teams - part I"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:38 -0800

Nice article, had pleasure to hear pretty most of this and more firsthand at Wojciech's 2008 Devoxx BOF (see http://unimplemented.blogspot.com/2008/12/devoxx-crowd-at-our-bof.html ).

Unfortunately I couldn't evaluate Crucible yet, finding it hard to justify initial costs. Wish http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CRUC-2350 got accepted so Crucible was part of $10 Starter program.

Many OSS projects use JIRA, but I don't see as many using Crucible (at least not publicly).

- Stevo Slavic

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:01:48 -0800

Hi Adrian, I planning to purchase the licenses but waiting on the new image with the updated version. I wonder if now you would have the ETA? This clearly generates a lot of interest but doesn't seem to get a priority,,,

- Ed

Comment on "Bidi quirkiness"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:39:15 -0800

People get used to the reading both ways issue.

Where I get frustrated it trying to leverage the TinyMCE language packs, which (in theory) should save you from doing a huge chunk of the work.

- Daniel Green

Comment on "Code Review in Agile Teams - part I"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:16:12 -0800

Just we are looking forward to the next couple of articles! We're hoping to start implementing code reviews in our teams soon..

- Sunil Tosawar

Comment on "Confluence has a Selenium Build!"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:28:18 -0800

Hi,

I am runnign selenium test scripts in eclipse thru Ant and am able to save the test reports in JUnit folder of my work space.

Now, we are concentrating on Bamboo integration, where our test scripts should run whenever the build in bamboo is executed.

I pushed the test scripts to our SVN and when I am giving the resource path as build.xml in SVN, the build gets failed.

Can you please tell me , how can I go about having my scripts pciked along with the build in bamboo.

Thanks,
Ravi

- Ravi

Comment on "Make Your Code Agile: Refactoring"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:10:16 -0800

The point was that this individual took great pride in the cut/paste code production method of producing massive amounts of code versus producing more streamlined code of a higher level of quality. I was just echoing the sentiment of "Refactoritis" above with a real-world example as one supposed super hero programmer ended up with a "big ball of mud" instead of something much tighter in a much tighter frame of time, which he could have achieved by more careful thought and design to begin with. I counseled him to abandon the cut/paste method mid-way thru his mud ball. He ended up seeing that producing tens of thousands of lines of code and refactoring is not necessarily all that impressive when one can spend a few hours designing and coding a much tighter solution in a much shorter timeframe.

- Nelson

Comment on "Code Review in Agile Teams - part I"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:10:32 -0800

I hope that some of your questions will be answered in next instalments (probably in a few weeks). But already I can reveal you our secrets: self-organization and commons sense :) Just do what works for you best.

- Wojciech Seliga

Comment on "Code Review in Agile Teams - part I"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:08:17 -0800

What are your best practices for doing code reviews with Crucible? We started using Crucible and like it a lot. But I find the workflow and roles fairly confusing. Who usually initiates a new review? If original developer, what if they write poor code and forget to create a review? I find reviews most helpful when the more senior person reviews the code of less proficient developers. If only two people are involved in a review (original developer and reviewer) who should be the moderator? Etc.

- Crucible User

Comment on "Code Review in Agile Teams - part I"

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:58:50 -0800

Looking forward to the next couple of articles! We're hoping to start implementing code reviews in our teams soon..

- Michael Warkentin

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:48:05 -0800

Thanks for this summary. I didn't know about the maven-dependency-plugin, but I was inspired by this to use it to eliminate the dependency Chronos has on an external install of JMeter, which I felt was a big weakness of this plugin. I've detailed the steps here:

http://gabenell.blogspot.com/2009/11/using-maven-chronos-without-external.html

- Gabe

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:40:36 -0800

Any plans to make this a paid for AMI and skip the licensing requirements? Also, any plans for JIRA 4 (this is 3.13.3).

- Richard

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52:37 -0800

Hi Chaitra,

You could like use a CSV file with the info in it, although it might be read regularly and may not be as efficient as using a property.

- George Barnett

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:51:07 -0800

Hi Andy,

It should run the reportSet on its own.

I've only ever seen that if the chronos goals don't execute correctly.

Is the main lifecycle executing? One of the changes made in later -atlassian version was to unbind from various lifecycle dependencies. This means that you should call mvn with at least the 'verify' and the 'site' goal separately. This won't be a problem if you're using 1.0-SNAPSHOT though.

You could try adding -X to the build to see if the added debug helps solve your problem.

- George Barnett

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:56:59 -0800

George

Weird - this is what I'm doing but the settings are not picked up.

More worrying is that, using a pom.xml that is identical in structure to yours, chronos produces no reports at all, but rather this error:

Embedded error: File C:\investmentaccounting-performance-test\target\chronos\perf-performancetest.ser not found

There is no such file in my tests. I can work around this a little by adding: (see caps below):

org.codehaus.mojo
chronos-maven-plugin
1.0-SNAPSHOT

${history.home}
ADD THE DATAID TAG HERE

and it runs that report, but it ignores the fact that I have several reports in my reportset and just runs the 'top level' configuration instead??

- Andy Bell

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:47:41 -0800

Extremely useful effort. A lot of new customers are setting up 10 user installations of the full Atlassian suite right now. It would be fantastic if this tool were updated to install the entire suite, deployed to an EC2 instance. It's too bad getting the suite running is difficult enough to earn people tshirts...

Any chance this could be given some priority? It can only help Atlassian's bottom line, since customers buying expensive licenses would use it too.

- Stu

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:38:13 -0800

Can i read the 'server' name from a text file in the JMeter component 'HTTP request default'

- Chaitra

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:12:08 -0800

Hi Andy,

You need to ensure the variables in your JMeter plan are set using the __P function. For example, to set the script runtime in the ScriptRuntime variable in JMeter, you would set it's value in the JMeter script to be ${__P(script.runtime,1800)} which would read it from the script.runtime property, or default to 1800.

The version number is tagged to Atlassian, but it's the same snapshot as what is from Codehaus. This version number indicated to get the artefact from a local mirror.

- George Barnett

Comment on "A tech writer gets intimate with the Atlassian Plugin SDK"

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:22:08 -0800

Of course it does. What could you be thinking of? BTW, there's little more sinister than fairies, especially when they're in a bad mood. :)

Thanks Eric!

- Sarah Maddox

Comment on "A tech writer gets intimate with the Atlassian Plugin SDK"

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:32:44 -0800

So - does WTF REALLY REALLY stand for WebApp Tutorial Fairy, or is it something more sinister?

LOL.

Great article!

- Eric

Comment on "Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:39:58 -0800

George

I've tried following the steps you mention, but I'm not getting JMeter to pick up properties set in the sysproperties section of the POM.

Your chronos plugin is labelled 1.0-atlassian-1, the one I have is labelled 1.0-SNAPSHOT. Is yours different to the 'standard' release?

- Andy Bell