Overview

This interactive session gives participants an introduction to 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

• 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

The offering will help customers:

• 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

Customer prerequisites

Before this training, the customer needs to have in place:

• GitHub Enterprise Cloud
• GitHub Actions enabled on target repositories
• Repositories contain 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)

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