Software Development Best Practices: From Agile to Secure Coding!

Dive into the best software development practices for the current and next years. Security, team collaboration, tools, automation and more—use these tricks to your advantage.

As a startup founder or a beginner developer, you’re juggling a million things at the same time. Deadlines are breathing down your neck, half-finished features are piling up, and there is probably some bug lurking in the code that just won’t go away, no matter what you do. There are days you look at the code and think, “How does this even work?”

Introduction to Software Development Best Practices

Why Best Practices Matter

Well, what if you just trash all these tips and go with the flow? Just design, code, fix, and release, what can be so difficult? High chances are that a lot of things will go wrong. 

Impact on Code Quality and Maintenance

Let’s imagine the following situation. You’ve built an app. It works fine for now, but you cut a few corners along the way because, hey, deadlines. You didn’t write tests because “it’s not that complicated,” and documentation? Who has time for that? Fast forward six months, and suddenly users are reporting bugs left and right. Your once-manageable codebase now feels like a labyrinth designed by someone who hates you. And that person is you from the past.