We at Mibex recently concluded our annual hackathon, this time focusing on improving developer workflows and enhancing collaboration. Our team came together over three days in June to create new applications and improve our existing ones. The results were nothing short of impressive.
Read moreWe're excited to invite you to our upcoming workshop, Automate to Elevate: Optimizing Your Pull Request Workflow, on Junel 6th, 2024. This workshop will be organized as part of the GreaTest Quality Conference. During our workshop, we will delve into the challenges of manual pull request workflows and explore how automation can enhance your process. Through real-world examples and case studies, we'll show you how to increase efficiency and code quality.
Read moreThe tools we use to document our ideas and projects can be as crucial as the content itself. Traditional UI-based documentation platforms like Confluence have served us well, but it's time to discover again the potential of plain text documentation formats like Markdown, AsciiDoc, Mermaid, and PlantUML.
Read moreThe advent of AI technologies, especially with the release of ChatGPT by Open AI in November 2022, has significantly impacted the software development landscape. At Mibex Software, our experience of designing and selling developer productivity apps meant that we were especially keen on exploring use cases for AI, in particular for the Code Review processes. We wanted to challenge the ability of AI to overcome traditional problems of the code review process such as subjective feedback, inconsistency and time consumption.
Read moreIn today's Confluence Cloud, connecting Bitbucket Data Center with Confluence Cloud has been a challenge. Our recent feature tackles this by enabling direct file inclusion from Bitbucket DC into Confluence Cloud documentation securely.
Read moreAs we celebrate a decade of innovation at Mibex Software, we're excited to share our journey through 2023, a year marked by groundbreaking advancements and engaging community events.
Read moreDo you want to know more about Code Owners, how to implement it or even how to simply optimize the way you use it? This guide is for you.
Read moreWhen developers in the software industry discuss "code reviews," they refer to a crucial process that enhances the quality and integrity of a codebase.
Read moreWe at Mibex recently held another hackathon, and this time the theme was focused on the potential of AI to improve our apps.
Read moreWe have decided to retire our app Developer Statistics for Confluence by end of September 2023.
Read moreJoin us for a valuable opportunity to learn how to build applications using AI tools like ChatGPT and to discover the potential impact that these tools can have on the code review process.
Read moreWith innovation at its heart, Mibex Software took off in 2022 with an array of remarkable successes. We are proud to share these standout highlights from our year!
Read moreChecklists are important instruments to uphold quality in code reviews. They help ensure that all the relevant tasks are carried out and that nothing is forgotten. However, doing those checklists manually is a tedious, time-consuming task. That's why many engineering teams have turned to automation using GitHub's pull request templates feature.
Read moreDuring the first week of November, the Mibex offices were turned into a "Startup Village," where eight bright individuals pooled their resources and worked together on projects and solutions to hard business problems. The office was buzzing with energy as we hosted our second annual Hackathon, inspired by Atlassian’s Shipit Days.
Read moreIf your Pull Request is staying open for too long due to missing reviews, you are falling into the danger of long-living branches causing merge conflicts, context switches etc.
Read moreIf your Pull Request is staying open for too long due to missing reviews, you are falling into the danger of long-living branches causing merge conflicts, context switches etc.
Read moreAre you surprised to know that more than 50 percent of the Global 500 use vulnerable open source components? There is no doubt that open source is powerful, yet it brings a lot of concerns around security.
Read moreThere’s a very astute observation from the mind of Peter Drucker that says, “what gets measured, gets managed”. The core principle of this idea is that without tangible metrics of performance, a process or task can slip through our fingertips and just become something we do on autopilot – rather than something we’re actively working to improve.
Read moreWe live in a digital world and almost everything we do has some link to technology, whether it involves working or enjoying our free time.
Read moreIn every development team, you have a combination of people with different sets of knowledge and expertise. That’s the beauty of working together as a collective.
Read moreGetting new software releases out efficiently and effectively is not easy.
Read more2021 was a rollercoaster year for us all, making our way through a global pandemic and trying to reinvent ourselves for this new modern world.
Read moreWe have decided to retire our app Pull Request Analytics for Bitbucket by the 1st of May 2022.
Read moreThe dirty truth about software development is that it’s often the internal team dynamics that can make or break a project.
Read moreConfiguration as code allows the entire configuration of Bamboo plans to be stored as source code.
Read moreAs a part of the Collaboration mix, we chose Jira, Slack and Confluence. Regardless of the tooling you decide to go with, keep the following principles in mind.
Read moreWith 63% of organizations seeing an improvement in the quality of their software deployment through utilizing DevOps, it’s no surprise that DevOps continues to grow as a method for developing software.
Read moreAfter much thought, we have decided to retire our app Plan DSL for Bamboo by 1 Jul 2022. Thanks to all customers who enjoyed using this app.
Read moreMibex hosted its first hackathon to spur our team’s creativity and develop helpful new applications.
Read moreReduce merge conflicts, improve the quality of code review, and ensure pull requests are merged on-time with Pull Request Analytics' Slack reminders.
Read moreAfter much thought, we have decided to retire four of our apps. Thanks to all customers who enjoyed using these apps.
Read moreMibex Software is proud to be part of the Pledge 1% movement and donates 1% of the yearly employee worktime for hands-on volunteering. For this years' Christmas Pledge 1% project, the Mibex team packed Christmas gifts for "Aktion Weihnachtspäckli".
Read moreWelcome to our Summer Newsletter 2019! We like to share some exciting news with you.
Read moreWelcome to our Spring Newsletter 2019! We like to share some exciting news with you. We are proud to present two new apps Suggested Changes for Bitbucket and Pull Request Analytics for Bitbucket.
Read moreAfter much thought, we have decided to retire seven of our Mibex Labs apps. Thanks to all customers who enjoyed using these apps.
Read moreMibex Software is proud to be part of the Pledge 1% movement and donates 1% of the yearly employee worktime for hands-on volunteering. This year with our mission to clean up the streets, alleys, paths, and forests nearby our hood.
Read moreWelcome to our Fall Newsletter 2018! We like to share some exciting app news with you. We are proud to present a Confluence Cloud version of our existing Confluence Server app Include Bitbucket for Confluence.
Read moreAtlassian announced today that Mibex Software is a launch partner for Atlassian's new Data Center approved apps. Sonar for Bitbucket Server, Include Bitbucket for Confluence, Repository Templates for Bitbucket and IPython Notebook Viewer for Confluence are now listed on the Atlassian Marketplace as Data Center approved apps.
Read moreWelcome to our Summer Newsletter 2018! We like to share some exciting app news regarding Sonar for Bitbucket Server, Sonar for Bamboo and Repository Templates for Bitbucket Server which might be interesting for you.
Read moreWelcome to our first newsletter in 2018! We like to share some exciting app news and also introduce two new apps: Code Owners for Bitbucket Server and Create Branch Wizard for Bitbucket Server. Besides, we also have new features available for some of our existing apps like Sonar for Bitbucket Server, Issue Creator for Bitbucket Server and Plan DSL for Bamboo which might be interesting for you.
Read moreConfiguration as code is an important prerequisite for continuous delivery (CD) to keep everything in source control. We built a plug-in that allows you to maintain your build plans with a Groovy-based DSL or YAML.
Read moreCreating a new version of a p2 plug-in for the Atlassian Marketplace means going to the Marketplace web UI and clicking through a bunch of steps including uploading a new JAR file of your plug-in, entering the build number, release summary and notes, choosing compatible host products etc.
Read moreThe Stash REST common library provides many nice helper classes for building REST services. You can include it in your Stash plug-in by using the following dependency in your POM file.
Read moreWith the recent launch of Bitbucket Server, many plug-in vendors will have to support both Stash and Bitbucket Server for some time until all clients have transitioned to Bitbucket Server. We already mentioned in a recent blog post how hard it is to support both Stash and Bitbucket Server in one plug-in.
Read moreCommunicating with Atlassian products from an external program, website or script is mostly straightforward thanks to the well-documented REST API’s these products provide.
Read moreWhile the migration from Stash to Bitbucket Server should normally go well thanks to the very thorough Bitbucket Server upgrade guide, we experienced some hard issues while migrating our 11 existing Stash plug-ins.
Read moreIf you have a Stash plug-in in the Atlassian Marketplace, you certainly know that it will not work anymore with Bitbucket Server if you don’t change it accordingly to the Bitbucket Server upgrade guide. There are basically two strategies two upgrade your plug-in.
Read moreAlfred is an awesome productivity app for Mac OS X. It is a real productivity booster allowing you to send e-mails to contacts with just one key stroke, to find files instantly, to search the clipboard history, to open websites with 1password, to execute system commands and much more.
Read moreEvery team has its own workflow. Atlassian Stash is highly customizable by allowing you to adapt it to your specific workflow requirements with its repository hooks. Repository hooks are not a concept invented by Stash, but instead build upon the hooks of Git.
Read moreAtlassian Stash is known to be highly configurable. But so far, it is not possible to configure repository settings centrally in a Stash project in order to reduce administration efforts. In this blog post, we will first present the various ways a Stash repository can be configured and then show a solution how we can deal with the administration issue.
Read morePeer code reviews have been proven to be a cost-effective software defect detection technique. This is because defects are detected early in the stage of a project when it is less expensive to fix them.
Read moreSonarQube is well-known to be one of the best tools to manage code quality. Through its extensive plug-in system, it supports the static analysis of all the common programming languages.
Read moreAs we outlined in a post earlier, one of our main goals is to integrate static code analyzers more deeply into the Atlassian product suite. Our first add-on that addresses this is called Code Review Assistant.
Read morePeer code reviews have been proven to be a cost-effective software defect detection technique. This is because defects are detected early in the stage of a project when it is less expensive to fix them. We think code reviews can be even more powerful when they are assisted by tools — i.e. by static code analysis tools.
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