qualityCode.md

Quality of computer code is relevant for everyone.

This does not concern me – I am only writing documentation or a script for generating a figure that I want to publish! [Anonymous researcher]

Great, but ...

• Figure may not be reproducible
• Figure looks different when the input data changes
• Documentation will become outdated

… actually, EVERYONE writing documentation, a script, or code is concerned!

Attributes of high-quality computer code

Quality of computer code can be seen as a group of various attributes.

High-quality computer code should be:

1. Versioned: incremental code
2. Well-written (formatted, documented, commented): easy to read by a human
3. Tested: extensively tested code