Software quality

What is good software?

You tell us. For the sake of this guide, software is good simply if it does the job.

Yes, we actually added a full chapter on Software quality, just to make it look like we would have a short answer for you!

If you worry about software quality, we recommend the following:

• Publish your software as open source from the start - it will make you more aware of documentation and code "beauty" (simple tips for more beautiful and better coding by 52°North developers) and thus increase the quality.
• Use an established documentation framework
• Follow an established software development lifecycle.

A longer answer can be found in any of these resources:

• Software Quality on Wikipedia
• David Chappell: The Three Aspects of Software Quality: Functional, Structural, and Process (industry white paper)