Quality Engineering goes beyond meeting stakeholders requirements & expectations. Quality Software goes beyond understanding what our customers want; how teams collaborates; and good processes & practices.
Quality software includes maintainability, flexibility, interoperability, all these "invisible" requirements that make Software development much more easy; make any troubleshooting and updating a walk in the park. These criteria's might be under good "Processes & Practices", but not all teams have the same definition of what is good practices.
An application might meet all Customer's requirements and might please everyone; but if it's a pain for development to work in the software and if they struggle each time they touch it, then we don't have good quality software.
I've seen it many times when customers are happy, sales are going up, everyone is congradulating themselves, and then I raise my hand and say "the software is sh...t". Developpers are afraid to touch it. Fixing bugs takes weeks of regression (or pre-prod testing). We are stable in production, but quality of the software is not there.
Absolutely agree with this perspective. Quality software isn’t just about meeting requirements on paper. It’s about how easy it is to maintain, adapt, and scale over time. If developers hesitate to touch the codebase because every change feels like a potential disaster, that’s a clear sign of underlying quality issues.
I’ve seen teams celebrate short-term wins while unknowingly accumulating long-term technical debt. The real challenge isn’t just delivering software that works today but ensuring it remains a solid foundation for the future. That requires a constant drive to improve - not just fixing what's broken, but actively refining architecture, processes, and collaboration to make software development less of a struggle.
Sustainable software quality isn’t a milestone; it’s a mindset ;-)
Quality Engineering goes beyond meeting stakeholders requirements & expectations. Quality Software goes beyond understanding what our customers want; how teams collaborates; and good processes & practices.
Quality software includes maintainability, flexibility, interoperability, all these "invisible" requirements that make Software development much more easy; make any troubleshooting and updating a walk in the park. These criteria's might be under good "Processes & Practices", but not all teams have the same definition of what is good practices.
An application might meet all Customer's requirements and might please everyone; but if it's a pain for development to work in the software and if they struggle each time they touch it, then we don't have good quality software.
I've seen it many times when customers are happy, sales are going up, everyone is congradulating themselves, and then I raise my hand and say "the software is sh...t". Developpers are afraid to touch it. Fixing bugs takes weeks of regression (or pre-prod testing). We are stable in production, but quality of the software is not there.
Absolutely agree with this perspective. Quality software isn’t just about meeting requirements on paper. It’s about how easy it is to maintain, adapt, and scale over time. If developers hesitate to touch the codebase because every change feels like a potential disaster, that’s a clear sign of underlying quality issues.
I’ve seen teams celebrate short-term wins while unknowingly accumulating long-term technical debt. The real challenge isn’t just delivering software that works today but ensuring it remains a solid foundation for the future. That requires a constant drive to improve - not just fixing what's broken, but actively refining architecture, processes, and collaboration to make software development less of a struggle.
Sustainable software quality isn’t a milestone; it’s a mindset ;-)