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Keep calm and code on in the face of bugs
Bugs making their way into the system may feel like a sting to a developer. But, letting go of defensiveness can bring many advantages!
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How to evaluate AI performance when you have no domain expertise
If you have no experience with the domain you’re working on, that’s ok. Here’s how you can beat common problems and ensure success.
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Content sponsored by SwimmA roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Gain expert insights on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer satisfaction, streamlining discovery, and effectively documenting complex, large-scale codebases for better productivity and collaboration.
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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.
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Essential reading
How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process
Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.
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.
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…
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
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.
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How technologists can reduce our ecological footprint
Tech’s impact on global warming and what you can do to help
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The principles and habits of healthy software
Building software that’s set up for a long, healthy life
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Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
Bringing security into the modern age of engineering
Top Software Quality Videos
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Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality
Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation
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Development setup: how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked
Gus Fune shares a story of three different developers and how their preferred setup was causing them to struggle in delivering.
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Sustainable means performant
Alex Canessa looks at how to reduce your website’s impact and improve your users’ experience, whilst designing and building with sustainability in mind.
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Compassionate Refactoring
Claire Sudbery talks about kindness and forgiveness, and the paradox that the more you accept and handle bad code, the more likely it is that you will end up with good code.
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Engineering a product for diverse markets
Grygoriy Gonchar shares his experience in building highly localized products in fintech, e-commerce, and classified industries.
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Taking the 737 to the MAX!
Nick Means uses the power of systems thinking to dig into how things could’ve gone so wrong (and learn to better see and understand the systems we interact with every day).
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Outputs vs Outcomes: Driving and defining quality in software development
Gabby Llanillo covers the value she added as a quality owner on her own game development teams and how aligning with her team early in the process to define what “good” looks like, significantly improves both the quality of the games and the relationship with the players.
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Constructing a framework for a differentiated customer experience.
Jasmine James examines key ways personas such as a leader serving external customers, internal customers and a team can establish processes, tools and capabilities that unlock a next level experience leading to more impactful customer strategies, a better employee experience and improved team velocity, to name a few.