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How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap
Only doing product-led work can lead to an unmaintainable system with lots of downtime. Unfortunately, getting time to work on the things that would prevent that can be challenging. Engineering roadmaps balance many competing demands, and the people making the decisions aren’t always the closest to the code. There is a need to learn how to speak their language.
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Efficiently Arranging Test Data: Streamlining Setup with Instancio
The need to ensure code quality is ubiquitous, regardless of the development paradigm. Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery indicate that reliable test suites are directly connected to the speed of development and quicker customer feedback loop. Instancio automates the data setup step - the A in Arrange-Act-Assert. So, it allows you to put more emphasis on the business feature tested.
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How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?
The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, nor pausing the development of new features. In this article, we have analyzed a few best practices to help avoid that.
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If Twitter Doesn’t Have a Staging Environment, Should Anyone?
With Twitter revealing they do not have a staging environment, how important is staging to delivering quality? When so many tasks are shifting to the developer these days and no one best developer approach fits all, how do dev teams determine the best developer methodology for them and their company?
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Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development
Implementing a feature can be measured. Quality is harder to measure. This article explores how to balance improving quality and adding new features. It dives into different domains of quality: Outer quality which is owned by the product people (e.g. product owners, testers), inner quality owned by the developers, and process quality owned by managers.
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The Importance of Pipeline Quality Gates and How to Implement Them
A quality gate is an enforced measure built into your pipeline that the software needs to meet before it can proceed. This article covers how to get the maximum benefit from quality gates. Making good use of quality gates not only can improve the quality of your software, but it can also improve your delivery speed.
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What Does Technical Debt Tell You?
Technical debt is a popular metaphor for communicating the long-term implications of architectural decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders, but there are limitations to its usefulness. Incorporating quality attribute requirements, or using a different metaphor such as deferred maintenance, can help improve decision making.
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From Async Code Reviews to Co-Creation Patterns
This article dives into the throughput and quality of the async code review process, which are very important dimensions to optimize for in product development teams. It also explains why co-creation patterns – Pair and Mob programming – as an alternative way of working are able to optimize for both of those dimensions, instead of needing to trade off between them.
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Evolving DevOps to Enable Quality at Speed Software
DevOps must evolve to include Quality at Speed to address issues with delivering timely business value and innovation, siloed teams lacking alignment, a fragmented toolchain, and quality sacrifices. Infrastructure, Developer and Experimentation platforms are the three fundamental platforms enabling Quality at Speed software delivery
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Code Red: the Business Impact of Code Quality
Everyone in the software industry “knows” that code quality is important, yet we never had any data or numbers to prove it. In this article, we explore the impact by diving into recent research on code quality. With twice the development speed, 15 times fewer bugs, and a significant reduction of uncertainty in completion times, the business advantage of code quality is unmistakably clear.
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Why is Everything So Slow? Measuring and Optimising How Engineering Teams Deliver
As teams grow, they will slow down, but it should not mean that teams stop delivering value that can power future business growth. Avoiding excessive technical debt and ensuring systems are secure and performant becomes increasingly important. As an engineering leader, you can do things to be confident that your team is moving at the fastest and most sustainable pace.
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POCs, Scrum, and the Poor Quality of Software Solutions
POCs and Scrum can play a critical role in implementing Quality software solutions. Poor quality often starts with a POC that was prematurely turned into the development pipeline. Scrum short sprints often create an environment most conductive to working reactively to constantly-changing requirements making it hard for developers to prioritize and achieve Quality over the course of the project.