Alex Thottunkel
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Feature Focus: Custom Portfolio Segmentation
Similar to the recent Portfolio Advisors for Cloud and Open Source, this capability allows portfolio managers to create their own custom portfolio segmentations based on a combination of Software I...
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Feature Focus: Portfolio Advisor for Open Source, an automated and smart way to segment an application portfolio better prioritizing third-party component risks
We are very proud to present the Portfolio Advisor for Open Source which joins the growing family of Portfolio Advisors that have already been released for Cloud and Technical Debt. This capability...
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Feature Focus: How to use Github Actions to scan your applications with CAST Highlight
Github Actions are workflows that you can use on your application repositories based on specific triggers. This is the perfect place to run CAST Highlight scans in an automated fashion. This articl...
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Avoid long 'if/else if' chains that could be replaced by a 'switch' statement
Why you should care For code readability purpose, prefer using switch if there are three or more options in a if. How we detect CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time a elseif chain is ma...
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phpinfo() should not be used in production
Why you should care For security purpose, developers should not leave phpinfo() in production code, as it displays information which can be used to compromise the server that your site is running ...
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Avoid useless overriding method
Why you should care Overring methods is a very powerfull way of factoring the code and produce complete fonctionnalities. However useless overriding methods can be a problem for the simplicity of ...
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The code contains too many uppercase control structure keywords
Why you should care For code readability and naming consistency, below control structure keywords should be in lower cases: if else elseif foreach for do-while while try catch ...
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The code contains too many PHP4 deprecated constructor naming.
Why you should care Developers should avoid using deprecated constructors. Since PHP5, constructor should be named __construct. How we detect CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time: a ...
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The code contains too many functions, interfaces or classes with closing not commented
Why you should care For better code maintainability, functions, interfaces and classes should end with a comment. How we detect CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time a function, an inter...
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The code contains too many functions throwing exceptions that have inconsistencies in "@throws" tags
Why you should care Every function that throws exceptions must have a throw tag. How we detect CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time a function throwing an exception has no @Throws tag. ...