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Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective Diomidis Spinellis. Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective. Addison Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-16607-8.

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• Improving a program's locality of reference can result into speed increases, as data elements are more likely to be found in a cache (Chapter 5: Space Performance, p. 234).

The Book Foreword by Robert L. Glass Preface (excerpt) Introduction (excerpt) Contents at a glance Detailed table of contents List of Figures List of Tables Performance measurement techniques (68K PDF: excerpt from Chapter 4: Time Performance.) Stack size snapshots (Figure from Chapter 5: Space Performance.) Type checking (99K PDF: excerpt from Chapter 7: Maintainability.) Common lines between two different Catalina files (Figure from Chapter 7: Maintainability.) Source code outline Bibliography Subject index (PDF 142K) Browse and search through Google Books Download the source code collection

About the Book FAQ Sites, lists, and blogs recommending the book Related tools and articles News, reviews, praise Errata An answer to Exercise 5.8 (Chapter 5: Space Performance, p. 232.) Citations Addison Wesley's book homepage Effective Software Development Series Get an instructor examination or a media review copy Code Quality translations Order the book from amazon.com

The only book that examines software quality through real-life source code examples.

From this book you will learn how to judge the quality of software code. Having mastered this art, you'll then be able to apply your new-found sense to the code you write on your own and to the code written by others, aiming to assess its quality aspects and improve what you find lacking. You can also use your acquired knowledge of code quality when you discuss implementation alternatives with your colleagues, hopefully nudging your project toward the most appropriate direction.

• Page 26: How can I avoid off-by-one errors?
• Page 143: Are Trojan Horse attacks for real?
• Page 158 Where should I look when my application can't handle its workload?
• Page 256 How can I detect memory leaks?
• Page 309: How do I target my application to international markets?
• Page 394: How should I name my code's identifiers?
• Page 441: How can I find and improve the code coverage of my tests?

Following on the steps of the universally acclaimed Code Reading book, Code Quality uses hundreds of examples from open source software projects, like the Apache web and application servers, the BSD Unix systems, and the HSQLDB Java database, to illustrate the code quality concepts that every professional software developer should appreciate and apply.

Diomidis Spinellis, author of the award-winning book Code Reading, has been learning and developing the concepts presented in this book since 1985, while writing ground-breaking software applications and working on multi-million line code bases. Spinellis holds an M.Eng. degree in software engineering and and a Ph.D. in computer science from Imperial College London. Currently he is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Translations and Other Editions

Chinese translation ISBN 978-7-121-17421-6

Chinese translation ISBN 978-7-115-16793-4

English / annotated Chinese ISBN 978-7-111-22671-0

Greek translation ISBN 978-960-461-123-2

Japanese translation ISBN 978-4-8399-1979-5

eBook edition ISBN 0768685125

PDF edition ISBN 0-7686-8485-4

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