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Software quality

Software quality

Building better software

  • Content sponsored by CircleCI

    How to build experimentation into your technical roadmap

    On demand video This webinar is for engineering leaders who believe that a strong culture of experimentation drives innovation – and who want to convince peers and stakeholders that it should be part of your technical strategy. Our panelists will share how they managed to build planning and conducting experiments…

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

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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

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.

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.

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London • June 16 & 17, 2025

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Top Software Quality Videos

  • Introduction to functional programming

    Expressions are the most basic form of human interaction! Programming languages are trending more towards using expressions rather than procedural statements, adopting the declarative paradigm.

  • The benefits of delivering imperfect software

    We all want to deploy the best software possible to delight our customers and please our product owners. There’s always one more feature, another performance improvement, and code we just wish we wrote better.

  • The possibility of AI-powered Javascript apps

    There are many exciting things happening with AI, from which, until recently, JavaScript developers were largely shut out. But things are changing, if you can do `npm install @tensorflow/tfjs` or make an API call, you can now do AI.

  • Identifying and articulating the role of AI in your software design process

    We’ve all read the articles and got excited by technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, Tensorflow, Panda and NumPy. A lot of us are also looking at how to incorporate these technologies into our toolset and in the software we are building.

  • Rejecting the black box: examining the implications and practicalities of testing AI

    There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on testing. There’s a new generation of testing tools being developed that employ AI with promises of making testing much more efficient for us.

  • Navigating front-end architecture like a Neopian

    Over the past few years, I’ve gained expertise in front-end web architecture. I’ve done this work at Indiegogo, Headspace, for my open source mental health project if-me.org, and in my current role at Mailchimp.

  • Designing software to maximize developer productivity

    Having worked extensively in the Shopify codebase, one of the largest rails apps in existence, I have experienced firsthand some of the downsides of working in monolithic codebases.

  • Principles for managing product quality

    Keeping an application stable starts off being simple since your codebase is small, there are few points of failure, and you can easily reason about the implications of code changes.