The Modern Developers Code Standards

Are Code Standards Creative Restrictions?

The Modern Developer is all about the “Art” of Software Development.

The Design Principles, Object Oriented Programming Best Practices and the Design Patterns with the Processes that support all of these concepts require a Professional sense of discipline.

One of the preeminent responsibilities of the Modern Developer is to create code that can be maintained at the lowest possible cost to the Client over the life cycle of the deployed solution.

This code must be understandable in the shortest period of time by any competent Developer who has been tasked with maintain the released code.

Code Maintainability is the Responsibility of the Initial Code Author

The number one tool you have for complying with this responsibility are Code Standards.

Code Standards Support the Discipline You Need to Comply with Your Number One Responsibility

… Code Maintainability over the Life Cycle of the Deployed Solution

The Code Standards section of The Modern Developer has Sixteen Code Arenas.

Each Code Standard has three sections:

1. Code Convention Definition

2. The Justification for the Code Standard

3. The Code Standards with Ideas and Concepts that will Support Better Development

The Modern Developer understands that they want to work on Legacy Software that they can easily Refactor and enhance when new Change Requests and Feature/Functionality changes are required.

Code Standards provide Freedom from Ambiguity of the Client’s expectations.

The Code Standards provide a common framework that can be understood by all team members.

Code Standards are the Modern Developers Road Map for Success