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Apex

Apex static code analysis

Unique rules to find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells in your APEX code

  • All rules 56
  • Vulnerability1
  • Bug12
  • Security Hotspot3
  • Code Smell40
 
Tags
    Impact
      Clean code attribute
        1. Test methods should not be annotated with "@isTest(SeeAllData=true)"

           Code Smell
        2. Tested code should be enclosed between "Test.StartTest()" and "Test.StopTest()"

           Code Smell
        3. Messages should not be hardcoded

           Code Smell
        4. System.runAs should be used to test user permissions

           Code Smell
        5. Business logic should not be implemented inside Triggers

           Code Smell
        6. Multi-line comments should not be empty

           Code Smell
        7. Methods should not have identical implementations

           Code Smell
        8. Cognitive Complexity of functions should not be too high

           Code Smell
        9. Track parsing failures

           Code Smell
        10. Boolean checks should not be inverted

           Code Smell
        11. Two branches in a conditional structure should not have exactly the same implementation

           Code Smell
        12. "switch" statements should not be nested

           Code Smell
        13. Unused local variables should be removed

           Code Smell
        14. "switch" statements should not have too many "case" clauses

           Code Smell
        15. Track lack of copyright and license headers

           Code Smell
        16. Functions should not have too many lines of code

           Code Smell
        17. Control flow statements "if", "for", "while", "switch" and "try" should not be nested too deeply

           Code Smell
        18. "switch" statements should have "when else" clauses

           Code Smell
        19. "if ... else if" constructs should end with "else" clauses

           Code Smell
        20. Sections of code should not be commented out

           Code Smell
        21. Statements should be on separate lines

           Code Smell
        22. String literals should not be duplicated

           Code Smell
        23. Methods should not be empty

           Code Smell
        24. Unused function parameters should be removed

           Code Smell
        25. Local variable and method parameter names should comply with a naming convention

           Code Smell
        26. "when" clauses should not have too many lines of code

           Code Smell
        27. Unused "private" methods should be removed

           Code Smell
        28. Track uses of "TODO" tags

           Code Smell
        29. Track uses of "FIXME" tags

           Code Smell
        30. Boolean literals should not be redundant

           Code Smell
        31. Redundant pairs of parentheses should be removed

           Code Smell
        32. Nested blocks of code should not be left empty

           Code Smell
        33. Functions should not have too many parameters

           Code Smell
        34. Expressions should not be too complex

           Code Smell
        35. Mergeable "if" statements should be combined

           Code Smell
        36. Tabulation characters should not be used

           Code Smell
        37. Files should not have too many lines of code

           Code Smell
        38. Lines should not be too long

           Code Smell
        39. Class names should comply with a naming convention

           Code Smell
        40. Function names should comply with a naming convention

           Code Smell

        Class names should comply with a naming convention

        consistency - identifiable
        maintainability
        Code Smell
        • convention

        Why is this an issue?

        Shared naming conventions allow teams to collaborate efficiently.

        This rule raises an issue when a class name does not match a provided regular expression.

        For example, with the default provided regular expression ^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$, the class:

        class myClass {} // Noncompliant
        

        should be renamed to

        class MyClass {}
        
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