quality in software engineering

the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality, exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle

Identify your error cases, plan for them, implement that plan, and then test it . Sometimes things don’t work! Most languages give you tools to identify error cases and handle them appropriately, so use them. And again, for the love of god, test it . If you commit and push a line of code that you have not personally watched run and work as expected... See more