# Overview

For each project, the improving code quality implementation looks like this:

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First, you define the quality standard for your project:

* With a *quality profile*, you define the set of rules to be applied during analysis.
* With a quality gate, you define a set of conditions that the code must meet.

Then, you define what is considered *new code* in your project, adapting your configuration to the nature of your project: versioned, continuous delivery, etc.

Finally, you ensure your code is analyzed frequently and at different stages of its journey, in your IDE and your DevOps platforms.

## Improving code quality as a developer <a href="#practicing-clean-as-you-code-as-developer" id="practicing-clean-as-you-code-as-developer"></a>

The configuration steps described above and in the following sections are handled by project administrators. As a developer, you improve code quality by reviewing and fixing the issues detected in new code, ensuring that the quality gate is always green and that only production-ready code is merged.

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To learn more about these topics, refer to the Issues, Quality gates, and Software qualities sections (see links below).

## Related pages <a href="#related-pages" id="related-pages"></a>

* [setting-up-clean-as-you-code](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.7/project-administration/setting-up-clean-as-you-code "mention")
* [introduction](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.7/user-guide/issues/introduction "mention")
* [quality-gates](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.7/instance-administration/analysis-functions/quality-gates "mention")
* [software-qualities](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/10.7/core-concepts/software-qualities "mention")