Confluence 2.4 would be developed in a strict six week time-box from inception to release. Anything we had done at the end of those six weeks we’d ship.
(Via Atlassian Developer Blog.)
Atlassian has always been a company I admire greatly. They put engineering first and foremost and let their products sell themselves. I’m really glad to see that they are continuing to push the envelope with short release cycles and lots of automated testing. They have a few interesting things just around the corner that will make watching this experiment that Charles blogs about even more interesting.
Of course, Atlassian wouldn’t be able to do any of this without their huge library of automated tests. I’m told they use HtmlUnit for most new tests, and HttpUnit in older tests. Now if I could only get them to try out Selenium, or even better, HostedQA. 
on Feb 27th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
We tried to integrate Selenium into our automated build system, but after running into a number of obstacles, we sort of put it on the back shelf.
We might try it again soon, though. The more Ajax-y and Javascripty stuff we use, the more nervous I get about test coverage.