AWS re:Invent 2025 - Improve quality and speed across the SDLC with Atlassian Rovo Dev (AIM211)

AWS re:Invent 2025 - Improve Quality and Speed Across the SDLC with Atlassian Rovo Dev (AIM211)

Introduction

• Presented by Yuvana, Senior Technical Evangelist at Atlassian
• Focus on platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and improving the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

The Importance of Developer Productivity and Quality

• Investing in developers leads to better products and increased revenue for the company
• Atlassian's 2025 Developer Experience (Devex) report found:
  • 99% of developers reported time savings using AI
  • Developers only spend 16% of their time coding, with the remaining 84% being non-coding tasks
• AI tools and assistants have a significant opportunity to improve developer productivity in these non-coding areas

Introducing Atlassian's RoboDev

• RoboDev is Atlassian's AI-powered agent for developers
• Designed to accelerate the SDLC through code planning, generation, reviews, and automation of repetitive tasks
• Understands both natural language and code, allowing interaction in various environments
• Leverages Atlassian's "Teamwork Graph" to have context of all data within the Atlassian ecosystem

RoboDev in Action

• Demonstrated fixing incorrect speaker images on a website by using RoboDev to update the images
• RoboDev can detect issues in images and automatically make the necessary changes

AI-based Code Reviewer

• RoboDev includes an AI-based code reviewer that automatically runs after a pull request is created
• Provides feedback on potential bugs, maintainability, readability, security, and more
• Allows customization of acceptance criteria and custom instructions to align with organizational standards

RoboDev Integration with Jira

• RoboDev is coming to Jira in open beta
• Provides a self-contained, AI-driven workflow to tackle Jira work items more efficiently
• Allows triggering RoboDev directly from Jira issues, with RoboDev creating pull requests and updating ticket status

RoboDev Integration with VS Code

• RoboDev extension for VS Code allows developers to work on Jira issues directly from the IDE
• Provides notifications on changes to Jira tickets the developer is working on
• Enables conversing with RoboDev within VS Code to request various actions

Automation and Customization with RoboDev

• RoboDev can be used to enforce organizational code quality standards across teams and repositories
• Allows defining custom instructions and coding patterns for RoboDev to use when reviewing pull requests or generating code
• RoboDev can also be integrated into CI/CD pipelines to diagnose and resolve build failures, providing root causes and suggested fixes

Key Differentiators of RoboDev

1. Connects to the entire Atlassian ecosystem (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, GitHub) to provide context-aware insights
2. Offers AI-powered automation across the entire SDLC, not just code-related tasks
3. Provides a terminal-first, context-rich experience to meet developers where they work
4. Allows customization of workflows, review standards, and AI behavior to suit organizational needs