Documentation facilitates Code Maintainability

Software AgilityCode Readability

Why you should care

Documentation is useful as it helps maintaining and embedding the code well. Undocumented code causes problems in the code by decreasing agility and maintenance reduction.

Business Impacts

Documenting code is advised as it allows for the code to be better maintained which frees up the code from potential bugs and reduces costs.

Cost
5362

How we detect

This code insight shows that labeling the END keyword is useful to associate it with their peer instructions.

5362

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.

See featuresHow it works