Ensuring Code Quality

Getting code quality to high levels right from the start of development is a very valuable thing to do. Issues uncovered later in the development cycle of a product tend to have exponentially higher costs compared to issues discovered early on. Different tools can be leveraged to ensure high levels of code quality.

Focusing on facilities in the BCL, our exposition of code quality tools and techniques doesn’t include a praise of unit testing virtues, a good development process, and so on. I strongly recommend enterprise-class developers invest their time in learning about those aspects, too. Keywords such as test-driven development (TDD) and software development in teams jump to mind immediately. Unfortunately, we don’t ...

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