Why you should care
It is recommended to have the list be symmetrical as it allows for the code to be readable and understandable by the user as well allow for increased efficiency and accessibility. It also helps prevent possible bugs and crashes.
Business Impacts
It is advised to give careful attention to the columns list as improper usage of the list can result in increased financial costs, waste of time and resources.
CAST Recommendations
How we detect
This code insight focuses that the list of columns should be systematically listed after the table name.
About CAST and Highlight’s Code Insights
Over the last 25 years, CAST has leveraged unique knowledge on software quality measurement by analyzing thousands of applications and billions of lines of code. Based on this experience and community standards on programming best practices, Highlight implements hundreds of code insights across 15+ technologies to calculate health factors of a software.