Working practice
Quality gate
An automated check work must pass before it can progress.
Definition
A rule enforced by tooling rather than by people: tests must pass, coverage must not fall, the linter must be clean, no critical vulnerabilities. Work that fails a gate cannot move to the next stage until it is fixed.
Why it matters
Gates are how a standard survives contact with deadline pressure, because a machine does not negotiate. Watch for gates that get bypassed routinely, since a rule everyone has learned to override is worse than none: it tells you the standard is theatre and hides the real state of the code.
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Definition of done
The written standard a piece of work has to meet before it counts.
Read the definition ›Quality assurance (QA)
Deliberately testing whether the thing built actually works.
Read the definition ›Code review
Another engineer reading a change before it ships.
Read the definition ›Acceptance criteria
The specific conditions that decide whether a deliverable is accepted.
Read the definition ›Next step
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