Towards a Better Code Quality: Ways to Improve

Masterclass

Towards a Better Code Quality: Ways to Improve

About

Writing code is easy, writing good quality, maintainable code, takes effort. We all have read about creating good quality code but it’s often a constant struggle, for individuals and teams, to apply on a day to day basis.

However, it’s incredibly hard to be agile if the quality of code is poor. With increasing pressure to deliver software faster, better quality code can help us towards sustainable agile development.

In this workshop we will dive into ways individuals and teams can help to improve the quality of code, in order to create code that is easier to understand, more maintainable, is testable, and deliver faster.

Learn from hands-on practical code exercises that will help to practice the concepts we discuss.

Course contents

This workshop is hands-on and includes several coding exercises. Attendees are encouraged to pair and work on the labs. The workshop involves live-coding and is highly interactive. The topics covered include:

1. Motivations and reasons to care about code quality:

Impact on quality on agility and productivity

Getting a sense of code quality

Identifying code Smells

Identifying Design Smells

Hands-on Exercises

2. Refactoring to deodorize code:

Approaching refactoring

Analyzing code

Incremental and iterative approach

Key elements for refactoring

Hands-on Exercises

3. Measuring quality code:

Tools and approaches

Individual efforts

Collaborative efforts

Reevaluating quality after refactoring

Design qualities

Perils of long methods

Hands-on Exercises

4. Object-Oriented code concerns:

Measuring cohesion

Dealing with coupling

Class level issues

Perils of improper and unnecessary state

Proper use of inheritance

Dealing with needless complexity

Hands-on Exercises

5. Functional Style code concerns:

Idioms of programming in Functional style

Patterns and antipatters of functional style

Dos and don’t of working with lambda expressions

Functional purity and perils of violation

Hands-on Exercises

Target audience and prerequisites

Software developers, programmers, leads, architects, technical managers who are keenly interested in improving the productivity of their teams and the pace of development

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- 26 October 2022