Code Quality: The Open Source PerspectiveDiomidis Spinellis.Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective.Addison Wesley, 2006.ISBN 0-321-16607-8. | ![]() |
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The only book that examines software quality throughreal-life source code examples.
From this book you will learn how to judge the quality of software code.Having mastered this art,you'll then be able to apply your new-found sense to the code youwrite on your own and to the code written by others,aiming to assess its quality aspects and improve what you findlacking.You can also use your acquired knowledge of code qualitywhen you discuss implementation alternatives with yourcolleagues, hopefully nudging your project toward themost appropriate direction.
Following on the steps of the universally acclaimedCode Readingbook,Code Quality uses hundreds of examples from open sourcesoftware projects, like the Apache web and application servers,the BSD Unix systems, and the HSQLDB Java database,to illustrate the code quality concepts that every professionalsoftware developer should appreciate and apply.
Diomidis Spinellis, author of the award-winning bookCode Reading,has been learning and developing the concepts presented in thisbook since 1985, while writing ground-breaking software applicationsand working on multi-million line code bases.Spinellis holds an M.Eng. degree in software engineering andand a Ph.D. in computer science from Imperial College London.Currently he is an associate professorin the Department of Management Science and Technologyat the Athens University of Economics and Business.
