Code Quality Practices: Perspective of Team Leaders

This paper describes and discusses a pilot study about code quality practices from the software development leader perspective. Semi-structured interview and thematic analysis have been selected as qualitative analysis methods. This article introduces the design of the research protocol, the execution of the interviews and the analysis process. The results drawn from the present study suggest potential dependence of the practices according to the context of the organisation: type of client and methodology. Code review, pull request in distributed repositories and coding standards emerge as the main code quality practices.