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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.
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
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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
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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New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
More about Software Quality
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Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy
Discussions on reaching a decision that is right for your organization.
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The search for the best solution: third party or open source?
What does the journey look like when you’ve decided to buy?
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140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
Exploring the tug of war between build and buy
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Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design
How our psychology affects our decision-making
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Having impact in engineering by supporting other people’s ideas
How to build an engineering organization that drives ideas from everyone in the team.
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Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision
Exploring the path to reaching an outcome
Top Software Quality Videos
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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.
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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.
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
When using tens or hundreds of microservices to provide an application’s critical functionality, diagnosing what interaction between components is causing an outage can be challenging.