Every commit has a risk, but can you quantify it? Teams go through a process to reduce risk, but whether it's a single line code change or vast refactor, the process is often the same. Quantifying the risk based on previous similar commits can help us decide whether it's worth …
Articles by Tom Howlett
Some Developers create 20x more bugs than others - here's what we can do about it
Over the last year I've been on a mission to discover new ways of improving ROI for development teams. As part of my work on predicting the probability of a bug in a commit, I've been analysing some large projects and used the data to train machine learning models. One …
Can you calculate the probability of a bug in your code?
TLDR: Yes, here’s how
Every code commit or merge is one of the critical decision points that determine whether you're helping or hindering progress. Getting it right is the difference between your customers cheering or crying over your next deploy.
How do we determine whether it’s time to …