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QA Automation Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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What do you like best?
If you works with tests you can use the jobs in Bamboo to run your tests in parallel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The same plan configuration is used for other branch build, it would be nice if we could create a different plan for different branch plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UC
User in Computer Software
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best?
In our organization, we use Bamboo for continuous integration and continuous deployment. Using this we save a lot of time. Almost all things related to building, testing, integration, and deployment can be automated here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The agents used for building our applications sometimes take a lot of time to start. I have faced my build to be in Queue waiting for the agent to came online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nils P
DevOps Engineering Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Visibility into the build process and separating deployments from builds is great. We like the seamless integration with JIRA and Bitbucket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Some of the concepts are slightly confusing and the integrations aren't really clear. You can kick off build releases in JIRA, but they only trigger build plans, never deployment plans, for example Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Priyanka M
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best?
Bamboo provides the facility of automatic build generation. Using Bamboo a lot of time and manual efforts can be saved. Bamboo is very easy to use and has simple user interface. Bamboo provides the facility of continuous integration and continuous deployment. So whenever any change is there in the bitbucket it automatically get integrated with the previous code and generates the build. Bamboo provides the feature of running the automation test case on the build which saves a lot of time. Bamboo provides various option for the configuration management. One can easily configure multiple branch, write script and can execute it. Bamboo provides various agent for building the build. Bamboo support community is always ready to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Bamboo provides the best feature which anyone would need, so it is very hard to dislike it. Bamboo can improve their documentation and can make some videos for the better reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Isha S
QA Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Bamboo is one of the best tool for the build automation. Using bamboo a lot of time is saved as it would take more time to generate the build manually. Using bamboo one can easily achieve continuous integration and continuous deployment. The bamboo provides feature of branch so one can easily create the branch and run the code. One can run the automated test case for the particular build. The integration of bamboo with the bitbucket is very helpful. One can easily commit the code in the bitbucket and bamboo can fetch the code for generating the build. Bamboo is very easy to use. One can do various configuration in bamboo. Bamboo documentation is very descriptive. The help community of the bamboo are very supportive. The logs of the bamboo are very descriptive and very helpful in troubleshooting the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Bamboo provides the best feature of generating the build so it is very difficult to dislike it. Bamboo can add functionality of automatically detecting the change in the bitbucket and generating the build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Rishu M
Software Programmer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Bamboo is the best automation tool that I have ever used. The best things about the Bamboo are as follow :
- The bamboo provides the faculty of managing the branch. One can disable and enable the branch according to his need.
- Using bamboo one can achieve continuous deployment and continuous integration.
- Bamboo provides the features of changing the build agent. So one can easily change the build agent whenever one agent is down.
- Bamboo user interface is very user friendly. Any new user can easily learn bamboo.
- Bamboo automatically generates the build and this saving a lot of time.
- In bamboo one can run the various test plan. Using bamboo one can achieve automation in the testing.
- In bamboo the administrator can provide the access to the user role. So it is very helpful
- Bamboo help community are always ready to help.
- Bamboo also provides the debug and error logs which are very helpful to troubleshoot any problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The video tutorials and documentation are very limited for bamboo. They can add more training videos. Also sometimes when the bamboo is down it becomes very hard to manage the automation plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UC
User in Computer Software
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
The most thing I like more about Bamboo is that it is very easy to create steps for a build plan. You have a lot of options you can use during the creation of a plan. You can add task of many types, like: Ant, Tomcat, Docker, Gulp, Maven and more others... For sure the most important is the integration with Git. Very useful to configure build for repositories. One thing I love is the direct link to the artifact that the build has produced. You can download it locally when the build is finished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Sometimes it stuck when you try to stop a build and you have to refresh the page to continue. I get this issue more than one time. It can be just an issue but it is not so rare to found it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI
User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Dhaval P
Software Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Bamboo can be used for the build automation. The best things about bamboo are listed below:
- Bamboo provides the feature of continuous deployment and continuous integration.
- Bamboo provides the best configuration management facility.
- In bamboo one can easily disable and enable the branch.
- In bamboo one can easily configure the build details and time to run that branch.
- The user interface of the bamboo is very simple.
- In bamboo the automation test case easily be run.
- The error logs of the bamboo are very descriptive so one can easily find out the mistake.
- Bamboo saves the lot of the time as it deploys the build automatically.
- The Bamboo integration with the bitbucket is excellent. All the changes are pulled and build is generated from it.
- Whenever you think that you are lost, you can ask your question to the bamboo support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I don't have any complain regarding the bamboo current features. The bamboo consumes the lot of memory so it hangs and misbehave sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Paul A
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Continuous integration is very useful. The product is very user-friendly, with a lot of accessible custom flow, release management and code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It is possible to use only the reports in the software. According to the specific projects, users can create their own. Bugs can also be added to tracking function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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User in Staffing and Recruiting
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best?
Has all of my details such as vacation and sick days remaining and what I have used.
Lets me see which team members are working or taking off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Very clunking and not very userfriendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ferhat S
R&D Lead
Computer Software
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from the seller
What do you like best?
It works. Out of the box. Well, you have to migrate to a proper database (the default installation uses an embedded H2/HSQL), but even that is not a hussle. There's a log analyzer that reports on the health of the server. Automatic backups on your schedule. The distinction between build and deployment projects and artifact sharing. Support for multiple deployment environments and tracking the deployed versions/builds for each environment. Agent infrastructure, so you can have build agents on different platforms. Great maven integration. Plenty of add-ons for integrating with peripheral tools such as SonarQube, Artifactory, npm etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Not much. Not zero, zilch, zip, nada, nothing, nil or null, but so little it does not directly come to mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Varun C
JIRA/Confluence Administrator at UST-Global for McKesson
Computer Networking
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Jayash J
Jayash Jagtap
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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What do you like best?
Atlassian Bamboo is great and very easy in configuring the integration and deployment plans.
Atlassian provides all the features documented over the cloud.
It is finely integrated with other atlassian products like HipChat, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
memory management seems poorly implemented, since it piles up the heap space frequently.
Sometimes it hangs and goes out of memory as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Fahad H
Soiftware Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
- Can automate a wide variety of builds
- Easy to setup in aws
- Easily integrates with our on-prem servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
- Can be slow at times with how it integrates with our ldap service
- Restarts itself randomly at imes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Valentina D
Logistics Coordinator
Financial Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
UI
User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Invitation from the seller
What do you like best?
It's super easy once everything is set by your administrator. You can be sure of the continuous delivery of your builds irrespective of the size of your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Initial setup can be a hassle but that depends a lot on skill of your administrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Simon P
Principal Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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Patrick L
Chief Technology Officer
Computer Software
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Integration with Atlassian stack, you can:
* view builds and releases that are related to specific issues
* run builds by releasing out of JIRA directly
* display build/deploy reports in JIRA and Confluence
* view code changes and reviews that are related to your builds
It also has excellent support for Maven out of box, making it very easy to:
* configure build plans for projects that use Maven
* release codes that uses the Maven release plugin
There are also 3rd party add-ons you can use (for on-prem) for things it does not support out of box, or if you want, create your own add-ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Outside of Maven, its support for other build tools is not as good. Especially when it comes to making releases. Because it uses the maven-release plugin, there are some "magic" it uses, which is not available in other tools, and you will end up writing command line scripts to work around it to have the same result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Matthew C
Principal Systems Engineer
Defense & Space
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
The basic build automation process, though not flashy, is probably the biggest win for us. One of the specific features we rely on is the ability for our Bamboo build process to parse Junit report outputs. We have written a number of validation tests that are executed during the validation portion of our builds. Note that that may not be novel from a software perspective, but we also have a number of configuration repositories against which we also run these validation steps to identify errors in the configuration and/or changes that should not have been made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
We work with a separate team responsible for the actual configuration and behind-the-scenes work, so from where we sit there are a few things that just "magically" work or fail horribly. Something that we have had difficulty with is parsing the captured output during the build process. Often we find stdout and stderr messages not being captured and viewable in the web interface. This usually results in "big stick" poking about to try to resolve the issue versus more targeted resolution that cleaner logs would allow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Jason R
Senior Software Engineer
E-Learning
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
What I like best about Bamboo is the nice user interface and how easy it is to use and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
One thing that I think they could improve on is easier integration with other tools like HipTest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Yashas J S
Graduate Student Intern
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Bamboo has a painless installation process, helpful quick-start guide, simple build configuration, and seamless integration with JIRA. Bamboo supports builds in any programming language using any build tool, including Ant, Maven, Make, and any command-line tools. Polling strategy can be easily configured and scheduled. It comes with configuration templates like ANT, Bundler and so on.
Support provided is real good and integrates with other IDEs easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Does come with lesser plugins and its not very flexible. Bamboo is really limited for a modern day tool, that too for a CI tool, where things aren't done from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Kevin F
Scrum Master - Sr. IT Project Coordinator
Insurance
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
This product is very easy to use and can easily be configured. The tool allows both developers, and non-developers insight into the currently deployed WAR file. We have many apps, each with various environments. Bamboo allows the QA team to easily deploy the desired code base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The build plans seems to fail quite frequently. This occurs for no apparent reason. If it fails once, we will attempt to deploy again. Usually after 2-3 times it will work, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joseph T
Front-End Developer
Financial Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Invitation from G2
What do you like best?
Easily configurable for project granularity. For example, I can define the relevant git repository's branch to a build project/job, provide the necessary build tasks with lots of different executables and scripts, and segregate the build from the release stage with parallel jobs for only specific users or groups. Lots of popular language integrations with multiple notification methods and great integration with other Atlassian products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Free only for first 7 days (as of June 25, 2015), although for only $10/mo for 10 jobs for 1 remote agent, it's a solid option for those ready to use enterprise-ready tools like Bamboo and its brothers and sisters of Atlassian products. I hope that there becomes a greater focus for mobile applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
