Writing quality software
published: Thu, 19-Jun-2003 | updated: Sat, 6-Aug-2016
Writing quality software is not about having good Quality Assurance people (although they're worth their weight in gold). It's about an agile methodology, good design, an iterative process, unit testing, and daily builds, amongst other things. Oh, and writing the simplest code that will acheive the requirement.
Articles on agile methodologies
I've been writing about agile methodologies and developing quality software for a little while. Here's a list of blog articles I've penned on the subject, available on this web site. (Please note that some are more about implementing a particular algorithm than about an agile methodology, but, nevertheless, each article demonstrates some aspect of agile development.)
- Testing in isolation
- Some answers on TDD
- Design and code reviews
- Writing a priority queue in C#, part 3
- Programmer's Block
- Thoughts on tools that help you refactor
- Writing a priority queue in C#, part 2
- Writing a priority queue in C#, part 1
- Implementing interfaces and using TDD
- TDD and private methods
- Testing quicksort
- Wake up, Delphi Informant!
- So, how do you code?
essential reading
Over the years, I've read a set of books that have altered the way I think about writing software. They often say the same things in different ways, they sometimes contradict each other, but always they make you think. They spark that sudden realization that perhaps you should be doing things in a different way, a better way. Or, maybe, if I'm lucky, they make congratulate me on getting it right. (More often the former than the latter <g>)
Please let me know if there are others I should consider, or that I've picked a bad one but whatsisnames is better.
