In conjunction with its sold-out developer conference in Barcelona, Atlassian Corp. PLC added significant new functionality to its Bitbucket shared development platform and released its first mobile apps.

The Australian software company, which specializes in tools to manage software development projects, introduced Bitbucket Pipelines beta, a continuous delivery service built within Bitbucket Cloud that provides “end-to-end visibility from coding to deployment,” the company said. Pipelines enables developers to manage an entire project workflow from within Bitbucket without additional setup. Pipelines includes built-in support support for third party platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which can be provisioned by adding a configuration file. Pipeline information immediately appears within commits, branches and pull requests to make in-context feedback easier to collect.

Atlassian also added Connect for JIRA Service Desk, giving developers an integration architecture for building and embedding add-ons within the product’s user interface and workflows. Developers can build add-ons that either create and update requests or extend JIRA Service Desk’s automation capabilities to react to changes in requests, the company said. For example, an add-on can create requests based on an incoming voice call with attached text transcription or pull customer and organization information from third-party sources like LinkedIn or Salesforce.com Inc. for inclusion in support tickets. Add-ons built with Connect for JIRA Service Desk can be used inside developers’ companies or offered for sale in the Atlassian Marketplace, which the company said has hit over $150 million in annual sales.

Atlassian has long resisted pressure to deliver mobile apps, reasoning that its customers work in front of full-sized screens. But no more. The company’s first two native mobile apps for Apple’s IoS support its most popular products: JIRA and Confluence. The choice of those platforms may be telling about Atlassian’s future directions. According to Business Insider, the company recently split the JIRA product line into three versions, two of which are targeted at non-development uses. Many companies are finding that JIRA’s tracking and workflow features work well for all kinds of activities that have nothing to do with creating code.

Finally, Atlassian joined the Open API Initiative and the Linux Foundation, saying that APIs, and in particular REST, “form the backbone of Atlassian’s developer ecosystem.” The Open API specification makes it possible for API documentation to be automatically generated, a capability that will replace a current manual process. The company is releasing as open source a custom site generator, RADAR, to host its API documentation.

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