Introduction

We'll start first by understanding what clean code is, and why this is important for a software engineering project for it to be successful. In the first two sections, we will learn how important it is to maintain good code quality in order to work efficiently.

Then we'll discuss some exceptions to these rules: that is, situations in which it might even be cost-effective to not refactor our code to pay off all its technical debt. After all, we cannot simply expect general rules to apply everywhere, as we know there are exceptions. The important bit here is to properly understand why we would be willing to make an exception and identify these kinds of situations properly. We wouldn't want to mislead ourselves into thinking something shouldn't be improved when in fact it should.

The meaning of clean code

There is no sole or strict definition of clean code. Moreover, there is probably no way of formally measuring clean code, so you cannot...