Book Review: Code Quality
With his first book, Code Reading, Diomidis Spinellis broke new ground. Here was a major book on the oft-neglected but important skill of reading source code.
Given that software maintenance is a huge and ever-growing burden that all developers have to endure, it is surprising that the major emphasis in education and in the industry at large is on writing code. Yet being able to quickly read and understand code is such an important - and obvious - skill yet there are few courses or books devoted to it.
Now, with this follow-up study, Spinellis continues to champion the skills required to understand and maintain large bodies of code.
As with the first book, Spinellis focuses his attention on a range of large open source applications for his examples - including the Apache web server, Tomcat, NetBSD, and the HSSQLDB Java database.
This isn't to pick on open source software as being hard to maintain or buggy by default, it's more a recognition that for his purposes real software is more useful than manufactured examples or contrived snippets of code. And of course, it's easy to supply the source code to readers, who can download it or use the CD that accompanied Code Reading.
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