Introduction to Code Quality
When we talk about code quality, we can think of different aspects of it. We mainly refer to the attributes and characteristics of code. While there is no widely adopted definition of high-quality code, we know some of the characteristics of good code:
- It is clean.
- Absence of code smells
- Consistent
- Functional: it does what we say it does.
- Easy to understand
- Efficient
- Testable
- Easy to maintain
- Well documented
There are probably additional characteristics of good code, but these are the core of the high-quality code.