Building a testing- and quality-driven culture at IBM

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IBM scales a pull‑request workflow that disallows direct commits, runs automated linters and tests via Travis Jenkins CircleCI plus git hooks (husky) and Prettier, and gates merges with SonarQube/Code Climate/SonarCloud and dependency checks (snick dot IO). Repos move from ~3% to above 80% coverage in many cases, 4 a.m. pager duty pages disappear, and measured technical debt trends down as teams adopt incremental training, boilerplate tested templates, and managerial incentives.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:38Testing is very important
3. 1:05Why isnt testing in place
4. 2:14You dont have time
5. 3:24Testable code
6. 4:55Manual QA
7. 5:35Testing isnt optional
8. 6:02Battletested strategy
9. 7:26Testing requirements
10. 8:52Quality guidelines
11. 10:14Style
12. 11:32Automation
13. 13:34Build Pipeline
14. 16:13Automated Tests
15. 22:04Peer Reviews
16. 23:39Better code
17. 26:30Better APIs
18. 28:04Making the right thing
19. 31:06Integration
20. 31:49Quality checking tools
21. 33:16Testing frameworks
22. 35:14Starting from zero
23. 37:13Internal training
24. 38:22Hackathons
25. 39:40Crossteam code reviews
26. 41:01Internal Docs
27. 43:13Writing testable code
28. 45:15Hiring external trainers
29. 46:29Managing up
30. 48:59Making coding a point of pride
31. 49:23Visual dashboard
32. 50:43Code coverage
33. 51:59Making testing deliverable
34. 52:31Testing needs to be important
35. 53:27Replacing habits with good ones
36. 54:43Understanding resistance
37. 55:09Focus on the bright spots
38. 55:46Reorganize teams
39. 56:15Measure management
40. 56:54Dont reward bad behavior
41. 57:16Shipping feature without tests
42. 57:28Stop letting teams get away with it
43. 57:48Be reasonable
44. 58:04Start plugging leaks
45. 58:19Ramp up period
46. 58:40Improve foundational quality

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