Essential good practice checklist

Practical tips

Discuss with colleagues and hold code reviews to ensure a shared understanding of our standards.

Further reading and information

Item			Guide or standard	Exceptions
1	Your code is terse, expressive and underpinned with coded tests.	☐	Write clean code	-
2	Classes follow SOLID principles.	☐	Follow SOLID principles	-
3	You follow Microsoft's C# coding conventions and Framework Design Guidelines.	☐	Follow Microsoft's coding conventions	Unless you have agreed to follow a local coding standard.
4	You handle exceptions and use defensive coding techniques.	☐	Exception handling and defensive coding	-
5	You calculate code metrics.	☐	Calculate code metrics
6	You calculate code coverage.	☐	Calculate code coverage
7	You analyse code for style and quality.	☐	Check code for style and quality
8	You analyse code for security vulnerabilities.	☐	Analyse your code
9	You share your analysis rules in source control.	☐	Analyse your code
10	You perform code analysis in build pipelines.	☐	Run code analysis in your pipelines
11	You check third party dependencies for security vulnerabilities.	☐	Check third-party packages
12	You publish metrics to your dashboards.	☐	Publish and review ,metrics