Bringing context to code and keeping devs in the flow with Atlassian and GitHub
When I’m deep in focus time and then have to switch tabs or log into another tool, it takes me at least 15 minutes to mentally get back to where I was. And that’s if I don’t go make a cup of coffee.
Context switching is the killer of not only deep creativity, but also just getting simple tasks done.
We recently interviewed more than 2,000 engineering leaders and developers and found that the majority of developers lose more than 8 hours per week due to inefficiencies in their workflows.
This is why we built Rovo to help every team succeed with AI, but it’s especially applicable to developers. With increasing complexity and responsibility, developers are continually asked to do more with less—and to do it faster.
At GitHub Universe this year, we’re showcasing new innovations to help developers improve speed, quality, and ultimately, gain a better developer experience, including:
- Reducing context switching and accelerating software development with Atlassian Rovo for GitHub Copilot: Simply ask right from your integrated development environment (IDE) and get access to all your data from Jira and Confluence. Context from Atlassian can even help Copilot to write your code. Rovo customers can enable it via the GitHub Copilot extension marketplace listing.
- Empowering engineers with an internal developer platform: Track every service in your central software component catalog, reduce time spent searching with activity tracking, and improve engineering standards and health with scorecards and templates—all in Compass.
- Early access to our new AI for developer agents: Go from plan to pull request in minutes, fast-track PR reviews, and more with Atlassian’s newest dev-focused AI agents. Join the early access program.
Bringing context to code: Introducing Atlassian Rovo for Github Copilot Extension
Developers often spend a significant portion of their day searching for the information they need to do their jobs. They need to switch from their IDE to Jira or Confluence to pull details on requirements, scope, testing plans, dependencies, latest deployments, and more.
With our new Rovo-powered Atlassian extension for GitHub Copilot, developers can look up all of their data from Jira or Confluence directly in Copilot or their IDE—saving time and frustration.
From knowledge about goals, teams, and projects, to all the details stored within issues, everything’s accessible by simply chatting with @atlassian-rovo in Copilot.
You can immediately ask questions like:
- What issues are assigned to me right now?
- How does my engineering org typically handle test plans?
- Are there new design requirements I need to know?
- Where can I find the associated tech docs for this issue and service?
- Who can I ask about edge cases I should think about for this type of issue?
By synthesizing the comprehensive domain knowledge provided by Atlassian Rovo, Copilot can then use this additional context and assist in code-writing, leading to a significant boost in efficiency.
Easily catalog everything without bugging everyone with your internal developer platform, Compass
Software development has become increasingly complex. Developers are asked to do everything from addressing incidents and configuring cloud services to navigating a sprawl of microservices and components to complying with niche regulations and beyond. This is further compounded by increasing cross-functional collaboration across distributed teams.
Atlassian is committed to helping developers better manage this complexity by bringing disconnected information and teams together in one place with Compass, Atlassian’s Internal Developer Platform. By reducing the toil of information gathering and coordination, we help developers get back to what they love–problem-solving, writing code, and learning.
Atlassian has partnered with GitHub to provide an out-of-the-box IDP experience that empowers engineering orgs to:
- Create a central software component catalog: Easily connect GitHub to Compass to automate the creation of your software component catalog.
- Track all your events in one place Quickly get services back online in the event of failure with all your alerts, deployments, incidents, feature flags, as well as upstream and downstream dependencies in one place.
- Improve software compliance and DevOps health through scorecards: Get a complete view of the health and performance of your services with scorecards that help you understand what you need to do and how you’re tracking during a delivery cycle.
- Automate consistency with software templates: Streamline the setup and creation of new software components, such as infra provisioning and deploy pipeline setup, with best practices baked in, saving time and effort for teams.
Compass recently announced a new premium edition that includes advanced governance and flexibility. Try Compass for free
AI for every developer workflow: New dev-focused agents in early access
Today, AI assists in code completion, but isn’t addressing the majority of tasks that get in the way of development velocity and quality, like getting started on a task with unfamiliar requirements, searching for information, or waiting for pull requests to be reviewed. We’re looking to change all that with our new dev-focused AI agents.
From issue to PR faster: Now, any developer can utilize AI to accelerate their workflow and go from issue to pull request faster than ever before—saving hours of upfront work time. This new dev-focused agent empowers developers to:
- Get started faster by automatically creating code plans, code recommendations, and pull requests based on task description, requirements and context from across your organization
- Clone repos, generate code, and create a pull request in GitHub or Bitbucket—right from Jira.
- Reduce cold starts for your sprint when dealing with unfamiliar services, framework
Fast track code reviews in GitHub and Bitbucket: Instantly analyze code, receive recommendations for areas of improvement, and even get suggested code edits within the pull request, all from an AI-powered Autoreview agent.
To join our early access program, add your name here.