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*Page 26: How can I avoid off-by-one errors? *Page 143: Are Trojan Horse attacks for real? *Page 158: Where should I look when my application can't handle its workload? *Page 256: How can I detect memory leaks? *Page 309: How do I target my application to international markets? *Page 394: How should I name my code's identifiers? *Page 441: How can I find and improve the code coverage of my tests? Diomidis Spinellis' first book, Code Reading, showed programmers how to understand and modify key functional properties of software. Code Quality focuses on non-functional properties, demonstrating how to meet such critical requirements as reliability, security, portability, and maintainability, as well as efficiency in time and space. Spinellis draws on hundreds of examples from open source projects--such as the Apache web and application servers, the BSD Unix systems, and the HSQLDB Java database--to illustrate concepts and techniques that every professional software developer will be able to appreciate and apply immediately. Complete files for the open source code illustrated in this book are available online at: http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/


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  • Page 26: How can I avoid off-by-one errors?
  • Page 143: Are Trojan Horse attacks for real?
  • Page 158: Where should I look when my application can't handle its workload?
  • Page 256: How can I detect memory leaks?
  • Page 309: How do I target my application to international markets?
  • Page 394: How should I name my code's identifiers?
  • Page 441: How can I find and improve the code coverage of my tests?

Diomidis Spinellis' first book, Code Reading, showed programmers how to understand and modify key functional properties of software. Code Quality focuses on non-functional properties, demonstrating how to meet such critical requirements as reliability, security, portability, and maintainability, as well as efficiency in time and space.

Spinellis draws on hundreds of examples from open source projects--such as the Apache web and application servers, the BSD Unix systems, and the HSQLDB Java database--to illustrate concepts and techniques that every professional software developer will be able to appreciate and apply immediately.

Complete files for the open source code illustrated in this book are available online at: http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/



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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (April 13, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321166078
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321166074
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Spinellis: The Anti-Kernighan, October 1, 2006
First of all, this author is a serious academic. The book is worth reading and probably will be for a long time to come. It's also a fine production typesetting-wise. The previous review's complain about copy-editing errors in the book is really missing the point, because those could be easily overlooked when you read books of such a grand scale.

The good points aside, however, I'm honestly a little surprised that there was only one review prior to the current one. This seems to indicate it's neither that popular, nor that obviously destined to be a classic, as the author probably had in mind when he was composing it.

One drawback, which it shares with its older sister, "Code Reading" (2003), is a pompous writing style. Lots of words and pages are wasted dwelling on the obvious, and in quite a few spots the way too obvious. Just go through one of those end-of-a-chapter points to take home, you'll know what I mean. As couple of more specific examples, take a look at the gratuitous explanation on omitting the constant factor of the big O notations on p.177; the needless yet painstaking attempt at explaining and justifying usages of charts in log scale on p.13.

This is in sharp contrast to the legendary writing of Brian Kernighan, whose "The Practice of Programming" (1999), "The C Programming Language" (1988), and "The UNIX Programming Environment" (1984) are all greats in professional computing, short, sweet, yet with densely packed knowledge content. They are truly time-tested classics, deserving read, and reread.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, marred by copy editing errors, June 27, 2006
By Edwin Fine (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This book has a great deal of interesting and practical advice. A few people learn much of this advice through years of experience, but from what I have seen, most do not. This book would be most useful to beginning and intermediate software developers who have not yet discovered the wisdom by trial and error, or experienced developers who want to communicate the information to less knowledgable colleagues in an easily digestible format.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed by by the quality of copy editing. I would have given the book 4 stars otherwise. However, I would still recommend the book, even with the errors, because it's worth it.
I wrote an email to the author, using the email address given on his website, giving in detail the errors I found in the book (First Printing, March 2006).
The author kindly emailed me promptly to inform me that he had added to the errata page the errors I had identified. Thanks to the author for the prompt reply and action.
I hope that A-W and other publishers will do a better job with their proofreading quality, like they used to a few years ago.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Important information, but it's not an easy read..., October 16, 2006
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Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis is the follow-up volume to Code Reading. Like the first one, there's a lot of wisdom in the writing, but the Unix/C++ and computer majors will get the most out of it.

Contents: Introduction; Reliability; Security; Time Performance; Space Performance; Portability; Maintainability; Floating-Point Arithmetic; Source Code Credits; Bibliography; Index; Author Index

Spinellis uses examples from open source code and software to discuss what makes for quality code. In most cases, the examples are designed to show what's *not* good. This might include buffer overruns, algorithms that don't scale well, and other various and sundry items. Each chapter ends with an Advice To Take Home section, which recaps all the suggestions and practices in a series of one to two line summaries (with references back to the detailed discussion). Because each chapter pretty much stands alone, you can focus on areas that make the most sense to you in your particular area of interest.

While I'd like to recommend the book without reservations, I feel that certain types of programmers will get more out of it than others. A large number of the examples are based on Unix/C++/Assembler code. In those situations, you will likely understand the concept being discussed, but the details may not be as clear. Also, Spinellis' background as a university professor seeps through, as some of the discussions are best reserved for math or computer science majors.

Is it worth reading? Yes. Just be prepared to work at it...
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