{"id":1155,"date":"2012-03-05T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:07","slug":"the-code-quality-continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-code-quality-continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Code Quality Continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to write high quality code?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little table that I use to judge my own code quality:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/code-quality-continuum.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/code-quality-continuum.png\" alt=\"Code Quality Continuum Chart\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Future axes to add:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ratio of the initial development cost to the long term maintenance cost<\/li>\n<li>Code testability: Code can be manually tested, code can be tested with automation, code can be tested via continuous integration<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to write high quality code? Here&#8217;s a little table that I use to judge my own code quality: Future axes to add: Ratio of the initial development cost to the long term maintenance cost Code testability: Code can be manually tested, code can be tested with automation, code can be tested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-and-cruft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}