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Best practices of Software development

Best practices of Software development.

  1. Code quality
  2. Unit testing
  3. Code review
  4. Version controlling

1. Code quality.

Quality of the code is very important to understand the code. A working code with bad code quality is like a wearing a dirty clothes. You can fulfill your main purpose but it isn't pleasant to others to see.

So your code must be easily readable and  understandable to others.  You and your co-workers will be in trouble when dealing with code with poor quality.

You can frequently check your code quality to maintain a good code quality using various types of tools. Some are free and integrated with IDEs.

You should eliminate code duplication and complexity. 

2. Unit testing

Unit testing helps developers to identify errors prior they integrate the full system. Unit testing should be done without damaging existing codes. Nowadays there is a huge variety of testing tools like Junit, EMMA, CodeCover.

Basically unit testing is verifying the small pieces of codes of a main code. It could be various as class, API, functions, etc.

 This allow developers to freely modify and debug there codes without dealing the whole integrated system.  

3. Code review

In experience, Code review is the most practical way to manage, assess and improve code quality.

You can allow your co-workers to review your codes. Most of the version controlling platforms like GitHub allows users to comment and review codes.

Most of the time reviewers find out small missing pieces and easy ways to do thing that you have missed on your own code.

4. Version controlling

Version controlling is crucial when developing a commercial products. Because you should modify your codes whenever clients wants to modify their products. Branching and other version controlling functionalities will help you to modify your code without breaking your or others working codes.

Version controlling supports multiple programmers to work in a single project without blocking each others. It eliminates the single point of failure in codes. 

We will be talk more about version controlling in our next post.













 

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