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Coding standards without control?
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| editormt 2006-12-05, 7:55 am |
| A recent poll asked if programming standards are used by development
organisations... and if they are controlled.
None: 20%
Yes, but without control: 49%
Yes, with control: 31%
Participants: 369
Source: Methods & Tools (http://www.methodsandtools.com)
A majority of the participating organisations have coding standards...
and a majority does not control them ;o) What is the situation at your
location? Does this lack of control really hurt?
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| editormt wrote:
> A recent poll asked if programming standards are used by development
> organisations... and if they are controlled.
>
> None: 20%
> Yes, but without control: 49%
> Yes, with control: 31%
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> Participants: 369
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> Source: Methods & Tools (http://www.methodsandtools.com)
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> A majority of the participating organisations have coding standards...
> and a majority does not control them ;o) What is the situation at your
> location? Does this lack of control really hurt?
Not really. It's more like a list of "best practices" that our system
uses - but, in a maintenance activity, it is often more beneficial to
code the program in the style in which it is already written. Certain
things aren't negotiable, and are enforced via peer reviews - naming
standards and error checking, for example.
The 49% above probably run the gamut from "we have 'em but no one uses
'em" to our organization's pragmatic approach to coding standards.
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