Joel on Software · 2000
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It's a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don't follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understand that stuff. So I've come up with my own, highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the.
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A twelve-question test makes software-team quality assessable without requiring readers to master an elaborate process framework.
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