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.&nbsp;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.&zwj;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:426/0*9tPZXCDOl9os9qm7.png" style="height:300px; width:426px" /></p> <p>These styles and standards will ensure that the code is consistent and readable, which&nbsp;<a href="https://stepsize.com/blog/complete-guide-to-technical-debt?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=content&amp;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> <ul> <li><strong>Code Style Guides &mdash; Keep consistent by establishing conventions for things like naming, spacing and indentation. Try the&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://github.com/airbnb/javascript" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Airbnb</strong></a><strong>,&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Idiomatic</strong></a><strong>, or&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://google.github.io/styleguide/jsguide.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Google</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;style guides.</strong></li> <li><strong>Code Comments &mdash; Establish conventions to ensure comments are useful.&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://stepsize.com/blog/the-engineers-guide-to-writing-code-comments?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=content&amp;utm_campaign=23-03-how-to-build-a-culture-of-code-quality" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Here&rsquo;s a great guide.</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;Never allow your team to push TODOs &mdash; they&rsquo;re neither visible nor actionable. Use a tool to track issues linked to code from your IDE.</strong></li> </ul> <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> <p>&nbsp;</p>