Software development has evolved greatly over the past several years. Improvements in programming languages and rapid development tooling, like .NET and Visual Studio 2008, have driven the software industry to build higher-quality software, faster, cheaper, and with more frequent upgrades or refreshes. Despite this continued demand for more software and the evolution in tools and processes, building and releasing quality software remains a difficult job for all participants of software projects, especially developers. Fortunately, this title encapsulates the essence of the best-in-class engineering practices, processes, policies, and techniques that application developers need for developing robust code.
Solid Code explores best practices for achieving greater code quality from nearly every facet of software development. This book provides practical advice from experienced engineers that can be applied across the product development life cycle: design, prototyping, implementation, debugging, and testing. This valuable material and advice is further supplemented by real world examples from several engineering teams within Microsoft, including, but not limited to, the Windows Live Hotmail and Live Search teams.
Solid Code has something for every participant in the software development life cycle. Most specifically, it is targeted toward application developers who are seeking best practices or advice for building higher-quality software. Portions of this book illustrate the important role of the engineering process as it relates to writing high-quality code. Other parts focus on the criticality of testing. However, most of this book focuses on improving code quality during design and implementation, covering specific topics like class prototyping, performance, security, memory, and debugging.
This book targets both professional and casual developers. Readers should have a basic understanding of programming concepts and object oriented programming in C#. There are no skill level expectations. Solid Code is about the practical application of best practices for managed code application development. The topics discussed within the book should resonate with managed code developers of all skill levels.