Ramping quality gates: A practical guide for enforcing code quality and security standards

Overview

In this course, you'll learn how to implement a tiered quality gate framework to centralize and enforce code quality and security standards across your organization. This guide walks you through how to incrementally increase your quality standards, and provides effective change management tips.

Learning objectives

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

• Explain the benefits of the tiered quality gate framework.
• Describe the five stages of implementing tiered quality gates.
• Describe change management best practices.

Key topics

• Tiered quality gates
• Quality gate thresholds
• Change management

Target audience

• Administrator
• DevOps engineer
• Developer
• Engineering leader
• Analyst
• Stakeholder

Prerequisites

• One of the following:
  • SonarQube Cloud Team plan or Enterprise plan
  • SonarQube Server Developer edition, Enterprise edition, or Data Center Edition
• Administer Quality Gates permission