How to build a culture of code quality
<p>A code quality culture is essential to stay ahead of your competition. High code quality ensures your codebase is maintainable, scalable, and efficient. While a culture of code quality is an internal aspect of your engineering team, it directly affects your end users. High-quality code allows you to ship new features faster, improving the user experience.</p>
<p>CTOs and engineering managers need to establish agreed styles and standards to build a culture of code quality. They should also track high-quality issues, be awesome at code reviews, track code quality metrics, and engage in peer mentoring.</p>
<p>This blog post will discuss each of these core areas in detail.</p>
<h1>1. Establish agreed styles and standards</h1>
<p>Your team needs agreed styles and standards for documentation, code, and code comments. These standards will span simple formatting rules to the way you structure larger chunks of code.‍</p>
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<p>These styles and standards will ensure that the code is consistent and readable, which <a href="https://stepsize.com/blog/complete-guide-to-technical-debt?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=23-03-how-to-build-a-culture-of-code-quality" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">minimises the risk of accidentally accumulating tech debt</a>.</p>
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<li><strong>Code Style Guides — Keep consistent by establishing conventions for things like naming, spacing and indentation. Try the </strong><a href="https://github.com/airbnb/javascript" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Airbnb</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Idiomatic</strong></a><strong>, or </strong><a href="https://google.github.io/styleguide/jsguide.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Google</strong></a><strong> style guides.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Code Comments — Establish conventions to ensure comments are useful. </strong><a href="https://stepsize.com/blog/the-engineers-guide-to-writing-code-comments?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=23-03-how-to-build-a-culture-of-code-quality" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Here’s a great guide.</strong></a><strong> Never allow your team to push TODOs — they’re neither visible nor actionable. Use a tool to track issues linked to code from your IDE.</strong></li>
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<p>Having a set of agreed standards makes it easier to identify code quality issues and provide feedback during code reviews.</p>
<p><a href="https://alex-omeyer.medium.com/how-to-build-a-culture-of-code-quality-c10c1d648cd5">Read More</a></p>
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