What Comes After SOLID? Seeking Holistic Software Quality
summary
Argues that software quality equals the value software creates and offers a concrete triage: usefulness, sustainability, accuracy. Presents the USA framework and maps specific practices to each—testing, CI, refactoring, pair/mob programming, mentorship, user research, frequent releases—and explains which problems each practice actually solves. Recommends prioritizing different elements over a project lifecycle and career, shows how choices cause future obstacles, and gives actionable signals for measuring whether code investments deliver real user or business value.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Redefining software quality
- 3:07The limitations of agile
- 5:09Value as the core metric
- 10:38The three pillars of quality
- 12:43Defining pillars in practice
- 21:10Classifying technical practices
- 25:54Practices for robust systems
- 35:32User-oriented thinking
- 38:35Career growth and empathy
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