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November 4 & 5, 2024

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September 4 & 5, 2024

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June 16 & 17, 2025

Software quality

Software quality

Building better software

  • How low (level) can you go

    Learn how mastering low-level systems and components can make you the go-to engineer for tough problems and drive product success.

How test coverage can improve code quality

As teams get bigger and the need for faster velocity increases, code quality can be difficult to uphold. Use these techniques from Michael Tweed, a principal software engineer at Skyscanner, to help.

Growing an experiment-driven quality culture

How to plan for and mitigate different types of tech debt

The four pillars of code health

How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process

Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.

Building a culture of quality in engineering teams

On our Software Quality playlist

Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality

Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation

Metrics – a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact

As managers or senior leaders, this talk will give you a primer for leveraging metrics for the objectives you seek, outcomes you desire, and the behaviors you want to incentivize or disincentivize within your engineering organization.

Content sponsored by Swimm

A guide to creating a great code documentation culture

If your teams are struggling with code documentation, watch this on-demand webinar, where our panel of engineering leaders will discuss best practices and strategies to get started. Code documentation is often viewed as a necessary evil by development teams. There’s no doubt that mastering the art of creating…

Content sponsored by Sauce Labs

Building a better testing culture

How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?

Joel Chippindale

Take back control of code quality

In this talk, Joel Chippindale shares stories from his experiences in leading engineering teams that illustrate the dynamics between team members and with stakeholders that lead teams to lose control of code quality.

November 4 & 5, 2024

The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.

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Top Software Quality Videos

  • Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety talk by Carol Lee in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

    Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety

    Uncover the science behind code review anxiety, its cognitive triggers, and actionable strategies to reduce anxiety, fostering a healthier code review culture for all developers.

  • Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons

    Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.

  • Doing the right thing vs doing things right

    Explore how successful companies navigate the tension between correct engineering choices and unexpected user needs. This talk shares lessons from a surprising product release journey.

  • Debug Like a Scientist

    This talk will enhance your programming toolbox for the hardest bugs. Not only this – but you’ll see how to scale effective debugging to the entire team. Last but not least – you’ll leave with a set of habits to share with your fellow engineers to help them step up their debugging game.

  • The software bug all stars – and what we can learn from them

    Join me for a thought-provoking and entertaining presentation where I’ll take you on a journey through some of the biggest and most impactful bugs in software history, including the example of an interplanetary probe launched by NASA that was lost due to a software bug. This will not only show the importance of attention to detail but also highlight the significance of proper testing and quality assurance. 

  • Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety (StaffPlus)

    Code review anxiety is often dismissed as a “junior developer issue,” but this talk challenges that misconception with scientific research. Carol Lee shares findings from studies on the causes and effects of code review anxiety, revealing cognitive factors like self-efficacy and bias that worsen it. You’ll also learn about an empirically tested intervention to help developers manage anxiety and create healthier code review cultures.

  • Substrate engineering: Engineering foundations in a world of LLMs

    We need to start investing much more in migrating to better programming languages, building better tooling, and authoring new frameworks where correctness is built in. What does that look like for your engineering organization today?

  • Content sponsored by Codacy

    How can engineering orgs move fast without compromising code security

    An interview with Jaime Jorge from Codacy