Code quality criteria

Question

Possible Duplicates:
How do we define Code Quality?
Software quality metrics

What critera you use to determine quality of code? metrics or some other?

Answer 1

See these:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/405243/how-do-we-define-code-quality
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162367/what-hurts-the-quality-of-your-code-most
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1205153/how-to-increase-code-quality

This question is [almost] a duplicate of the top one.

Answer 2

ease of maintenance is the only relevant criteria that is really important.

Answer 3

Mandatory http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m

Answer 4

Metrics of what?

The oldest trick in the book says that programmers optimize metrics to their best interest, and since metrics are going to be wrong you better find another way.

• Peer reviews
• List item
• TDD
• Lots of unit test

Feedback in general.

That's the only thing that will maximize the amount of quality in your code.