Question for the dev team

If I am talking in professional capacity with developers then I would probably be interesting in asking them some of the following questions. I want to get perspective on how they and their company think and act about the common challenges we face. Listed out in no particular order.

Testing

• What are your thoughts on code coverage?
• What frameworks do you use to test your code?
• How do you feel about integration testing, unit testing?

Code Review

• Do you require code to be reviewed before merging? If so, in all cases?
• What do you feel the purpose of code review is? And what is not appropriate during code review?
• How long does it usually take for a code review to be completed?

Version control

• Does your company use a version control system?
  • If so, which one and how do you feel about it?
  • If not, how do you manage versions and changes? And how do you feel about that?

Deployments

• How long does a deployment usually take?
• How manual is your deployment process?
• If you could change one thing about your deployment process, what would it be?

Code quality

• How do you define code quality?
• How do you maintain code quality in your code base?
• Is consistency of code important to you and your team? If so, how to do you maintain it?
• What are your thoughts on code formatting?

Feature work

• How does your team decide what to work on?
• Where do requirements come from and/or how are they gathered?
• What approach do you take to estimating the work required to build a feature?
• What does “done” look like for a feature?
• How do you know if a feature achieved its goal?

Monitoring

• How do you monitor the health of your application?
• What kind of metrics are you looking for?
• What happens when the app reports errors?

Incidents

• What does on call look like at your company?
• Who is responsible for responding to incidents? Is there a rotation?