Which items are typically included in a team's coding standards?

• A. Marketing guidelines and sales pitches
• B. Coding style, naming conventions, documentation expectations, testing standards, and code review guidelines
• C. Hardware procurement policies
• D. Only performance tuning rules

Answer: (B)

Coding standards define how a team writes, documents, tests, and reviews code, ensuring consistency and quality across the project. The items typically included—coding style, naming conventions, documentation expectations, testing standards, and code review guidelines—together create a shared framework that makes code easier to read, maintain, and collaborate on. Marketing guidelines and sales pitches, hardware procurement policies, or focusing only on performance tuning don’t address how code should be written, tested, and reviewed, so they don’t fit as the standard set. The comprehensive collection is the best fit because it covers the practical, day-to-day practices that keep a codebase coherent and reliable.