in reply to Re: Perl Code Quality
in thread Perl Code Quality
Now my question: How can I assure that the system written is well-done? I am assuming it should be OO, with clean documentation and sensible classes, a documented and thought-out database structure as well as abstraction where possible. These are things I can observe. What else could/should I check for?
You can do a lot by explicitly defining the object structure and APIs that you want. If you don't want to be this involved in the design, you could just look at the code as it is returned to you and give the development team feedback. AFAIK there is no automated way of determining code "quality," so I think you'll have to just describe your desire for good, modular code and see how well the company can do with it. I'm assuming that you've already picked your software company of choice, if not you should definitely attempt to shop around and get code samples from a variety of places.