Practices

Good coding practices are important to good code. They can help to guide programmers through difficult problems, helping them when they get stuck, or preventing them from getting stuck at all.

Practices

• The 50/72 Rule
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Behavior Driven Development
• Code Readability
• Collective Code Ownership
• Common Architectural Vision
• Continuous Integration
• Dependency Injection
• Descriptive Error Messages
• Dogfooding
• Know Where You Are Going
• Naming Things
• Observability
• Pain Driven Development
• Pair Programming
• Parse, Don't Validate
• Read the Manual
• Red, Green, Refactor
• Refactoring
• Shipping Is A Feature
• Simple Design
• Single Point of Enforcement
• Test Driven Development
• Timeboxing
• Update the Plan
• Vertical Slices
• Whole Team
• Whole Team Activity
• YOLO Architecture

Notable Books with Practice Lists

• Practices from Code That Fits in Your Head