Forgive me, I guess what I was trying to say was well commented,maintainable,efficient,scalable, and self-documenting is a plus. That's my definition of quality code. To me it should be implied that high quality code meets specification (good or bad, you can always code it better than the spec requires) I agree it should also be able to pass as complete a test suite as can be devised. Also it should always exit as gracefully as possible with as few side effects as possible. Personally that's my definition.