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7 Jan 2025

nstormann 12 min read

At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Our dedicated accessibility team supports developers in following these guidelines throughout the development process. We…

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5 Apr 2022

Arpita Patel 13 min read

At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. The DevXp…

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18 Feb 2022

Carlos Valdez 12 min read

In 2021, we changed developer testing workflows for Webapp, Slack’s main monorepo, from predominantly testing before merging to a multi-tiered testing workflow after merging. This changed our previous definition of safety and developer workflows between testing and deploys. In this project, we aimed to ensure frequent, reliable, and high-quality releases to our customers for a…

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