Chapter 14. Coding Standards

Assuring the quality of your team's development requires more than passing unit and integration tests successfully; it includes the full lifecycle of your software's maintenance and perception by its customers or users. The following objective guides the development of the Eclipse project:

As with any product being built by a team, there are various areas where standards, conventions, and other guidelines can play a role in helping to ensure that the resulting product presents to developers and customers as a unified whole rather than as a loose collection of parts worked on by a variety of individuals each with their own styles and ways of working. (from Eclipse Standards, Conventions, and Guidelines)