Alex Thottunkel
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Feature Focus: Portfolio Advisor for Technical Debt
We recently enhanced the Technical Debt calculation in CAST Highlight which has enabled new possibilities to visualize and analyze the Technical Debt of an application portfolio. One such scenario ...
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Avoid using ellipsis in functions
Why you should care Functions should not be defined with a variable number of arguments. Varargs methods are a convenient way to define methods that require a variable number of arguments, but the...
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The code contains use of getClass().getName()
Why you should care In a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), "Two classes are the same class (and consequently the same type) if they are loaded by the same class loader and they have the same fully quali...
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Avoid unconditional jump statement
Why you should care Having an unconditional break, return or throw in a loop renders it useless; the loop will only execute once and the loop structure itself is simply wasted keystrokes. Having a...
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Avoid octal values
Why you should care Integer literals starting with a zero are octal rather than decimal values. While using octal values is fully supported, most developers do not have experience with them. They ...
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The code contains too many throws to system exceptions
Why you should care The code contains too many thows to system exceptions (java.lang.Error, java.lang.RuntimeException). Application should have their own error exception classes. Throwing generic...
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Feature Focus: Re-calculate Software Health scores in real-time based on folder exclusions
This article explains how to use the CAST Highlight feature that allows users to re-calculate the Software Health scores and sizing metrics of an application in real-time based on specific folder e...
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Methodology Update: Threshold Change in Health Factors (June 2021)
In CAST Highlight's June 2021 version, we updated the thresholds used for coloring Software Health indicators (green, orange and red) to reflect current values in the benchmark repository, which is...
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Feature Focus: How to use Application Tags?
This article explains how to create and manage application tags to filter, segment and organize your application portfolio in CAST Highlight. How to create and manage tags? A tag in CAST Highligh...
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The code contains too many queries leading to a high number of table columns
Why you should care Complex select clauses, i.e select clauses with many column can be difficult to read and does not help the reader who needs to identify the relevant columns to be retrieved. Al...