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GitHub Code Quality

An interactive training session introducing GitHub Code Quality, GitHub's dedicated product for identifying and remediating reliability and maintainability issues within code repositories. Delivered as a blend of presentations and guided demo walkthroughs, the training covers how to enable GitHub Code Quality at scale, how the "github-code-quality[bot]" surfaces findings on pull requests and turns each PR into an opportunity to improve code quality, and how Copilot Autofix accelerates remediation of existing code issues.

Topics covered

  • Code Quality overview — introduction to Code Quality fundamentals
  • Enablement & Configuration — how to turn on Code Quality and configure related features
  • Standard findings & ratings — review the distinct finding views on code quality
  • Pull request workflow — code quality control right in the PR flow
  • Measure & operate — measure and operationalize Code Quality
  • Positioning & next steps — Code Quality vs. Code Security, and next steps in your environment

Customer benefits

  • Reduce manual triage burden as the "github-code-quality[bot]" automatically surfaces reliability and maintainability findings in PRs.
  • Accelerate remediation with Copilot Autofix, which generates AI-powered remediation suggestions directly in the PR workflow or for existing code findings without requiring a separate Copilot license.
  • Gain visibility into organization-wide and repository-level code quality, enabling data-driven decisions about where to focus on engineering investment.

Learning objectives

After completing this training, learners will be able to:

  • Interpret code quality ratings, severities, and rules.
  • Use PR-native "github-code-quality[bot]" findings.
  • Remediate safely: manual remediation, Copilot Autofix, cloud agent, or dismiss findings.
  • Improve existing code with Standard and AI findings.
  • Measure impact and report progress to stakeholders.

Audience

Required:

  • Software developers and engineers - Technical leads responsible for code quality and technical debt reduction

Optional:

  • Engineering managers tracking code reliability and maintainability metrics - DevOps / platform engineers managing GitHub organization settings

Delivery details

  • Level: Intermediate [200]
  • Offering type: Training
  • Format: Remote

Prerequisites

Before this training, ensure you have in place:

  • GitHub Enterprise Cloud
  • GitHub Actions enabled on target repositories
  • Repositories containing at least one supported language: C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or TypeScript
  • Repository admin or organization owner access for the enabling user (required for Repository Enablement API configuration)