Reading list on Quality

A collection of web links on the topic of Quality

Why Quality is important to Productivity, whilst also being difficult to define and measure - the four types of quality. Process, Code, System, Product.

Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 7: Software Quality
There are three facets of developer productivity: speed, ease, and quality. In this column, we explore software quality, what has made it so difficult to define and measure, and theorize that there are four types of quality which influence each other.
ieeexplore.ieee.org

Quality is a Grade - and your stuff only needs to be just good enough.

It's OK if your code is just good enough
Good enough code is a nice middle ground between implementing a feature fast and maintaining the code quality.
shiftmag.dev

It’s okay, nobody gets taught this stuff. The correct amount of Quality Assurance is hard to judge.

You are never taught how to build quality software
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
florianbellmann.com

Quality code is human-readable and predictable, not complex or unsustainable.

The Source of Readability
Readability is more objective than you'd think.
loup-vaillant.fr
Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
How to Reduce Code Complexity and Develop Software More Sustainably “Mark Seemann is well known for explaining complex concepts clearly and thoroughly. In this book he condenses his wide-ranging software … - Selection from Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering [Book]
www.oreilly.com

Looking at real-world scenarios and using them as analogies for Software Engineering

Disaster Lessons by Anoop Dixith
anoopdixith.com