Suspicious Comments can increase costs due to their suspicious nature

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Why you should care

Avoid (in production code) comments that reveals that the code could not be finalized or not mature.

Business Impacts

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CAST Recommendations

References

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How we detect

Count one violation each time one comment bloc (one or more contiguous lines of comment) contains at least one of the following patterns :
  • two or more successive ! and/or ?.
  • following expressions :  [àa] (v[ée]rifier|faire|voir|revoir)
  • following keywords : todofixmetbctbdattention
  • english expressions : to be (verified|done)
  • english keywords : warning
 

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https://doc.casthighlight.com/alt_suspiciouscomments-avoid-suspicious-comments/
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