Quality Standards and Release Readiness Questions

Covers the policies, processes, and measurable criteria that determine software quality and whether a build is fit to ship. Topics include establishing and enforcing code review practices and engineering standards such as naming conventions, architecture patterns, testing requirements, and performance thresholds; defining quality gates at stages like build, integration, and pre release; and specifying concrete exit criteria such as severity tier thresholds for open bugs, regression test pass rates, automated test coverage targets, and performance benchmarks. Also includes how to integrate automated pipelines and manual checks, perform risk based trade offs between quality and time to market, decide when to ship with known issues and how to document and mitigate them, communicate quality status and release risks to leadership and stakeholders, and use post release monitoring and retrospectives to improve standards over time.