I’m a big fan of Joel Spolsky’s writings and last weekend I checked his article archive for some useful to read. One interesting article I found there, which is about how we can steer our development process to achieve better coding. Even though he has written this in year of 2000, it's almost valid yet.
He was discussing about 12 steps we can follow up for better coding and he named it as Joels Test
The Joel Test
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
Questions are about two options you take as answer; Yes or No.
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