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[[Coding conventions|Coding standard]] is an agreed upon set of rules that the entire development team agree to adhere to throughout the project. The standard specifies a consistent style and format for source code, within the chosen programming language, as well as various programming constructs and patterns that should be avoided in order to reduce the probability of defects.<ref>{{cite book | last = Kolawa | first = Adam |author2=Huizinga, Dorota | title = Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Management | url = http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470042125.html | year = 2007 | publisher = Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press | page=75| isbn = 978-0-470-04212-0 }}</ref> The coding standard may be a standard conventions specified by the language vendor (e.g. The Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language, recommended by Sun), or custom defined by the development team.
Extreme Programming backers advocate code that is [[self-documenting]] to the furthest degree possible. This reduces the need for [[Comment (computer programming)|code comments]], which can get out of sync with the code itself.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/new-lecture-slides/xp.ppt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-01-31 |archive-date=2021-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211217175200/http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/new-lecture-slides/xp.ppt |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Collective code ownership ===
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