World Congress 2021 • Jul 1, 2021

What Developers Get Wrong About Application Quality

Chris Riley

Think application quality slows down feature delivery? Treating reliability as a first-class feature actually minimizes technical debt and accelerates your development cycle.

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Transforming software quality from assurance to enablement

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Introduction to software quality assurance in enterprise applications

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Shifting software testing from adversarial gatekeeping to enablement

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Cultivating a shared team mindset for software quality

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Evolving beyond DORA metrics for software delivery

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Improving communication while defending foundational code quality

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