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The quickly evolving role of QA
In fast-paced software development environments, the way you think about quality assurance needs to change.

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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.
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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
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.
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…
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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Architecting for profit: A blueprint for modern cloud economics
If the role of a good cloud architect is to design and build cost-effective software, is there a formula to achieve that goal every time?
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Cost savings don’t have to impact code quality
Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October, Plaid’s Mark Robinson discusses cloud costs and how they could be the ticket to both dollar value and improved code quality.
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Consultative QA as a way to empower engineering teams
Consultative QA has the ability to transform your engineering team, putting the responsibility on the engineers for the quality of their work, whilst still having a level of assurance that a seasoned tester can bring.
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SRE for engineering managers
Site reliability engineers apply software techniques to operations to maximize uptime and avoid costly outages. But is this approach right for your organization?
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Breaking down different software tester roles
Starting out in the tester field and wondering how to map out your career path? Laveena Ramchandani may be able to help you figure out the differences in responsibilities according to titles.
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Let’s mitigate bias in tech
If we aren’t careful, dangerous biases can manifest in software applications. Here are some ways to be vigilant to fight bias in tech.
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How to build a strong culture with ensemble programming
How does working as an ensemble help your team’s efficiency and culture?
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Making code reviews teachable moments
How applying concepts from education theory to code reviews can improve knowledge transfer across your engineering teams.
Top Software Quality Videos
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Using Open Source safely and effectively
How can you make sure your engineering teams are up to date with best practices on open source?
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Collaborative debugging on engineering teams
Teams that write code together should be able to debug issues together. But while we think a lot about engineering collaboratively, we rarely develop processes for debugging collaboratively.
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Building security into your engineering workflow
You don’t need to sacrifice delivery times when building a secure product
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In partnership with Rollbar
Introduction to Continuous Code Improvement
Join our solutions engineer to understand how we can help reduce deployment time and cost with an accuracy that you and your team can rely on.
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Decision Making for Software Engineering Teams: Francesco Strazzullo in conversation
How to be mindful on what data you need to decide on
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In partnership with GitLab
Integer overflows, bad UX, and other ways to waste $870 million
Learn how a DevSecOps mentality is intended to overcome the biases we have for simplicity in our human model of complex systems.
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To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?
This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work — human, technical, and organizational — needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
