Practices Supporting Software Craftsmanship
The question then becomes: How can we constantly increase the likelihood that our software is correct from the start? First, let computers do what computers do best, the rote mechanical activities and detailed analyses that are time-consuming and error-prone for humans. The ways we can leverage automated code quality tools leads to a taxonomy of software hygiene.4
4. Thanks to Zee Spencer for his suggestions in this area.
• Style: Whitespace, curly braces, indentation, etc.
• Syntax: Compilation, static analysis
• Simplicity: Cyclomatic complexity, coupling, YAGNI5
5. “You aren’t going to need it” from extreme programming. [XPI, p. 190]
• Solution: Runtime, correctness, whether it works, TDD, BDD
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