High-quality software engineering, which promotes the best possible conditions to create successful software products, depends on a myriad of elements, spanning different areas, such as coding and execution runtime, development environment and technologies, development process, and deployment and supportability.

These traits are indispensable to create a great software product and the author distills 50 critical rules and guidelines, inferred from over 20 years of firsthand experience in building successful software products, to create a direct, concise and effective blueprint of what...