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Like many in the WordPress world, I started as a cowboy coder. Editing .php files right on the FTP server? You betcha. This is a great way to develop \u2013 if you don’t mind potentially catastrophic fatal errors, and unhappy stakeholders.<\/p>\n

I’ll share some strategies from our team at Fusion for integrating quality checks into a WordPress-specific product development process, plus some tips on keeping it fun.<\/p>\n

This talk will introduce you to the following concepts (including easy steps you can take to followup):
\n\u2013 Product requirements document (PRD)
\n\u2013 Github workflows and code review
\n\u2013 Linting
\n\u2013 Test-driven development (TDD)
\n\u2013 Hackdays and team culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many in the WordPress world, I started as a cowboy coder. Editing .php files right on the FTP server? You betcha. This is a great way to develop \u2013 if you don’t mind potentially catastrophic fatal errors, and unhappy stakeholders. I’ll share some strategies from our team at Fusion for integrating quality checks into … Continue reading How We Keep Development Cool, Calm, and Collected<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6175503,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1434220500,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[806],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13215],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-803","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-power-user"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Q0r2-cX","session_date_time":{"date":"June 13, 2015","time":"2:35 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"806","slug":"davis-shaver","name":"Davis Shaver","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/davis-shaver\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/803\/revisions\/894"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/806"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/davisshaver"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}