13 articles in Code Quality
Most teams treat DORA metrics like a dashboard decoration — check them quarterly, nod at the numbers, change nothing. Elite teams use them as a compass that connects delivery performance to engineering decisions. Here's the difference between observing DORA and using DORA.
DORA metrics tell you delivery is slow. Code coverage says tests are fine. But neither tells you why features take 3x longer than they should. Detection connects the dots — correlating process symptoms to code causes — so you fix what actually matters.
Most test suites look healthy — high coverage, all green. But run mutation testing and you'll discover that 80-90% of tests would still pass even if you deleted the code they claim to test. Here's what decorative tests are, why they're dangerous, and how to fix them.
AI coding agents don't create quality — they amplify whatever's already there. The 2025 DORA Report confirms it: AI adoption correlates with higher instability. Here's why your codebase determines whether AI accelerates delivery or accelerates chaos.