As developers, we are all too familiar with code reviews. Having another pair of eyes take a look at our code can be wonderful; it shows us so many aspects of our code we would not have noticed otherwise. A code review can be informative, and it can be educational…

Code review is a technique that can improve the quality of a codebase by having multiple developers look for bugs and other problems before passing them on to others. Manual code reviews are costly and time-consuming, which is why many development teams use automated tools to do this work. Automated…

“What’s the biggest set of items in terms of tech debt. I can attack it, scope it into the code quality sprints and then start incrementally evolving” — Badri elaborated. In Good Code Podcast, we talk to experienced developers and technical leaders about the art and science of writing good…

Bug-risks are issues in code that can cause errors and breakages in production. A bug is a flaw in the code that produces undesired or incorrect results. Code often has bug-risks due to poor coding practices, lack of version control, miscommunication of requirements, unrealistic time schedules for development, and buggy…

Right off the bat, let’s clarify an important distinction. Writing code that works and writing good code are two very different things. The former is a skill while the latter is an art form, and this difference distinguishes great programmers from the crowd. When we talk of good code, the…

A guide to writing stable and secure Python applications. Python is undoubtedly a popular language. It consistently ranks among the most popular and most loved languages year after year. That’s not hard to explain, considering how fluent and expressive it is. …

Python’s dominance is never really questioned when it comes to the best for programming novices because it checks almost every box that defines a simple language. It’s remarkably easy to pick up and can rise to any challenge. But what about Ruby? Although it does not get enough credit for…

The first time you heard of a state machine, what did you think it was? I thought it was a debugger. A debugger I could use to find those annoying bugs in my code. A state machine is not a debugger. …

The answers to every what, why, when, and how about Static Code Analysis in JavaScript Do you suffer from poorly written code? Is your codebase riddled with inconsistencies? Do you experience anxiety every time your code is being reviewed? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, static code analysis could help. Static code analysis is the process of analyzing code before it is…