SD5 Software Quality

Learnign objectives

Understand Coding Standards
Understand Code Quality
- Apply software engineering methods and practices especially in the context of high-performance computing.
- Develop parallel programs and to apply software engineering methods and best practices.
- Assess code quality using different metrics, e.g. length of functions, length of files, lines of code, complexity metrics, code coverage.
- Use static code analysis tools in order to calculate the metrics (e.g. http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/).
- Identify bad code structures (known as bad smells) in order to assess the quality of the code design.
Understand Refactoring
- Apply common code refactorings in order to improve code quality, such as extract method, extract class, rename class and when it is suitable to apply which refactoring.
- Apply refactoring that are specific to programming languages (e.g. Fortran).
Understand Code Reviews
- Use a review system like Gerrit to organize the code reviews.
- Document code review results and resulting tasks in an issue tracking system (for example Jira).
- Define checklists for code reviews.
- Conduct code reviews in pairs or in a team.
- Document code review results and resulting tasks in an issue tracking system (for example Jira).
- Demonstrate awareness of technical debt during software development and how to pay technical debt.