Comments on: What is code quality ?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:45:27 +0000

For me code quality is made up of a number of criteria and not just one thing.

->Does the code solve the business problem
->Elegance of the solution (can the developer explain the design decisions)
->Is it understandable by someone else
->Is it unit testable

and more…

By: Rick Tonoli

Rick Tonoli — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:19:29 +0000

How about this as a start: Good code is (amongst other things) code that any developer of equal experience, and no previous exposure to the code or business, can understand by simply reading it?

By: Nic Willemse

Nic Willemse — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:40:30 +0000

What about a good understanding of the paradigm ? it’s all to often I have seen typical procedural code in an OO paradigm. Does this not constitue bad code ?

By: Dave Tapson

Dave Tapson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:40:48 +0000

This is one of those personal things – what one person thinks of as quality code, another reviles.

Personally I think it’s dependent on the environment – for corporate code I go for simplicity over clever complexity, comments that describe what the code is supposed to do (as opposed to what it does) and a convention that is not too verbose. With a convention should come uniformity.

In something like a skunkworks, things can be different – one does not need to be quite so pedantic as hopefully experienced and enthusiastic developers will have some sense of responsibility towards the code base / other developers.

By: Rickus

Rickus — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:12:59 +0000

That’s easy -

Good code is code that behaves itself