Software Elegance - CAST Highlight

Indicators & Methodology, Software Health

Definition

Software Elegance measures the ability to deliver software value with less code complexity. A low Software Elegance score indicates decreased quality in the code resulting in higher defects that become costly to fix at mid-term.

Thresholds

Thresholds used for Software Elegance categories:

High (green): value > 78.0
Medium (orange): value >= 55.0
Low (red): value < 55.0

Code Insights

Find below some code insight examples which contribute to the Software Elegance index.

The code contains too many “SELECT *” requests

Avoid using complex operands

Local variables can slow Innovation

Methods with too many parameters can be complex

Nested loops can slow down innovation

Too many nested Loops decreases innovation

Declaring too many functions can make Javascript code complex

The code contains too many includes.

Nested Loops cause performance issues

Crossing the Parameter limit can cause bugs

Mixing DDL & DML operations can cause recompilation

Conditional expressions should not be too complex

SELECT clauses with many columns tend to be complex in nature.

EXIT closes the entire script

Structural code complexity may be too high

Levels of logic complexity and conditions seem to be unbalanced

The vocabulary frequency is too low

Bulky files are complex to work with

Code Complexity Software Elegance