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  • The code contain too many unused private methods

    Private methods that are never executed are dead code: unnecessary, inoperative code that should be removed. Cleaning out dead code decreases the size of…

  • Boolean checks should not be inverted

    is needlessly complex to invert the result of a boolean comparison. The opposite comparison should be made instead. This is furthermore the case in…

  • Avoid to cover two dimensional ranges with nested for loop

    Nested for loops are not a good practice because for loops are using an increment to cover a range, and nested for loops are…

  • The code is managing too many files together

    The number of files declared in the FILE-CONTROL should not be excessive.

  • ‘switch’ statements should not be nested

    Nested switch structures are difficult to understand because you can easily confuse the cases of an inner switch as belonging to an outer statement.…

  • The code contains too many “SELECT *” requests

    This Code Insight counts one occurrence each time a “SELECT *” or “SELECT SINGLE *” query is found.

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    Avoid using complex operands

    This code insight sanctions data accesses in operands having a too high level of indirection. The level of indirection is determined by the path…

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    Avoid methods or function with too many local variables

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    Methods with too many parameters can be complex

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    Nested loops can slow down innovation

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