Definition of Done Generator
Pick the quality gates your team cares about. Get a tailored Definition of Done checklist you can copy into a ticket or print for the wall.
Quality gates
Custom criteria
- Acceptance criteria in the ticket are all met
Illustrative estimate of quality-surface coverage - editable, not a benchmark.
Your Definition of Done
Definition of Done
- Code merged to the main branch with a clean history
- CI pipeline is green (build, lint, tests)
- Unit tests written and passing for new/changed logic
- Documentation (README, API docs, runbooks) updated to match
- Code reviewed and approved by at least one peer
- Changelog / release notes entry added for user-facing impact
- Acceptance criteria in the ticket are all met
Make "done" mean the same thing to everyone
A Definition of Done is the contract your team signs about quality. Without one, "done" drifts - one engineer means "it compiles," another means "it is tested, documented, monitored, and shipped safely." The gap shows up later as rework, escaped defects, and 2am pages. Writing the gates down turns a vague standard into a checklist every ticket clears.
This generator keeps a small always-on base and appends one line for each gate you enable - unit and integration tests, docs, peer review, monitoring, feature flags, accessibility, performance budgets, security review, and changelog entries - plus any custom rules you add. The output is plain Markdown checkboxes, so paste it into your issue tracker or print it. It pairs well with the acceptance criteria grader and the product plan generator earlier in the flow.
A checklist shapes behavior, but only measurement proves it works. Connect your DoD to outcome measurement and planning to see whether tighter gates actually reduce rework and cycle time - start with the cycle time guide.
Questions
Ship to a standard you can measure
FeatureFactory helps engineering teams plan, build, and measure AI web development - so "done" is provable, not just agreed.
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