From the course: Agile Software Development: Dealing with Legacy Code and Technical Debt
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Keep code clean
From the course: Agile Software Development: Dealing with Legacy Code and Technical Debt
Keep code clean
- [Instructor] Code can get messy, real messy. Following clean code practices can help provide some concrete guidance for identifying what needs to be cleaned up. Some of the details include guidelines for how things in your code should be named, how your files should be formatted, and how your tests should be authored. Following these guidelines will help ensure that your team has a consistent way of evaluating when something in your project needs to be refactored. There are many different resources for practicing clean coding guidelines. Here in the library, I've developed another course that focuses on those guidelines and covers how to transform messy code into clean code. If you want more concrete practice, there are some Clean Code Kata which you can try. David Losert has one that is worth checking out. The clean coding practices are the closest to weeding a garden that you're going to find. Each guideline is very…
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