The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection (Collection) (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

“Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.” —Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plaugher

Some folks use QA as the bug catchers. They send them code that they haven’t thoroughly checked.

Releasing code to QA that you don’t know works is unprofessional.

Every time you look at a module you make small, lightweight changes to it to improve its structure. Every time you read through the code you adjust the structure.

Professionals work together. You can’t work together while you are sitting in corners wearing headphones. So I want you sitting around tables facing each other. I want you to be able to smell each other’s fear. I want you to be able to overhear someone’s frustrated mutterings. I want serendipitous communication, both verbal and body language. I want you communicating as a unit.