Using Tools to Improve Code Quality

As a programmer, enhancing code quality is one of your chief concerns. Improving the quality of your code demands the utilization of various tools. Tools designed to improve your code and speed up development include code metrics, quick actions, the JetBrains dotTrace profiler, JetBrains ReSharper, and Telerik JustDecompile.

This is what we’ll be doing in this chapter. To do so, we will cover the following topics:

• Defining good-quality code
• Performing code cleanup and calculating code metrics
• Performing code analysis
• Using quick actions
• Using the JetBrains dotTrace profiler
• Using JetBrains ReSharper
• Using Telerik JustDecompile

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

• Use code metrics to measure software complexity and maintainability
• Use quick actions to make changes using a single command
• Profile your code and analyze bottlenecks with JetBrains dotTrace
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