Prohibited words (BadWords)

Type	Scope	Severity	Activated by default	Minutes to fix	Tags
Code smell	BSL OS	Major	No	1	design

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default value
badWords	String	Regular expression for prohibited words.	``
findInComments	Boolean	Find in comments	true

Description

Software modules should not contain prohibited words. The list of forbidden words is set by a regular expression. The search is case-insensitive.

For example:

"singularity|avada kedavra|Donald"

"transcenden(tal|ce)"

Snippets

Diagnostic ignorance in code

// BSLLS:BadWords-off
// BSLLS:BadWords-on

Parameter for config

"BadWords": {
    "badWords": "",
    "findInComments": true
}