Topics:

  • Attributes of quality
  • Quality as a team and not a role's responsibility
  • Perspectives on quality from different team members
  • What should be important to a programmer early in their career so they write quality software?
  • Pride in one's work as an indicator of quality
  • How the industry's view on quality is screwing up quality
  • Product/developer tension and its impact on quality
  • Specialization and hand-offs impacting quality
  • The education system's impact on early programmers attention to quality
  • The idea that developer's shouldn't be testing their code because they wrote it
  • The pitfalls of code coverage as a proxy for quality

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.