Executive summary
Read through the Production lens — the standard calibration. *Green* means good enough to run in production. The score is absolute and comparable across repos.
cajuncoding/SqlBulkHelpers is sound in substance but carries real gaps (53%). It is not in crisis, but the issues below raise the cost of changing it — friction its consumers ultimately inherit.
It is strongest in Architecture (97%) — the structure is clean and changes stay contained.
The area that most needs attention is Readiness (48%) — releases are harder to depend on — versioning, release notes and dependency hygiene are thin, so consumers can't easily tell what changed or trust an upgrade. Maturity (50%) is the next concern — onboarding is slow — key decisions and the architecture aren't written down, so contributors have to reverse-engineer the intent.
Leadership focus, highest impact first: SAST step to CI running what this repository's stack ships (Security & performance tooling); Extend structured logging across the projects you operate (Observability); Keep a changelog (e.g. Keep-a-Changelog) recording what shipped… (Release Hygiene).
For scale: Small (~7,442 production lines); rebuilding it from scratch would take roughly ~0.1 person-years (~1 engineer). Approximate, ±~30%.
It builds on a genuinely strong Architecture foundation (97%); the priorities above are the highest-leverage way to bring the rest up to that level.
Raise Readiness 48 → 70 (the Healthy floor) ⇒ headline 53 → ~57.
New since the last scan (84+)
- D1 · SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts (cyclomatic 23) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs
- D2 · SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts (cognitive 29) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs
- D2 · MaterializeDataHelper.ClearTablesAsync (cognitive 22) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- D2 · BaseSqlBulkHelper.PostProcessEntitiesWithMergeResults (cognitive 16) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- D3 · TooManyMethods: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs
- D3 · TooManyMethods: MaterializeDataHelper NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- D5 · Off the main sequence: NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers(netstandard2.0)
- D6 · Low cohesion: MaterializeDataContext (LCOM4 4) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataContext.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: BaseHelper.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/BaseHelper.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlClientCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/SqlClientCustomExtensions.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersConnectionProxyExistingProvider.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersConnectionProxyExistingProvider.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Async.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Async.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Sync.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Sync.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersMergeAction.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeAction.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkCopyFactory.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkCopyFactory.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelperSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelperSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkLambdaPropertyConverter.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkLambdaPropertyConverter.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: CloneTableInfo.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/CloneTableInfo.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: MaterializationTableInfo.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializationTableInfo.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: MaterializeDataContext.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataContext.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: MaterializeDataHelper.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: EmbeddedResourceExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/EmbeddedResourceExtensions.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/SqlBulkHelpersCustomExtensions.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: StringExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/StringExtensions.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SystemCollectionCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/SystemCollectionCustomExtensions.cs
- D8 · Low coverage: SystemIOCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/SystemIOCustomExtensions.cs
- D8 · CRAP 552: SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs
- D8 · CRAP 210: BaseSqlBulkHelper.PostProcessEntitiesWithMergeResults NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- D8 · CRAP 136: RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.FindRepoDbPropertyHandler NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs
- D8 · CRAP 132: MaterializeDataHelper.ClearTablesAsync NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- D8 · CRAP 132: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.AddFullTextIndex NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs
- D8 · CRAP 90: BaseSqlBulkHelper.ResolveIdentitySetterAction NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- D8 · CRAP 83: StringExtensions.Replace NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/StringExtensions.cs
- D8 · CRAP 75: TableColumnDefinition.BuildColumnTypeSql NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs
- D17 · TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- D17 · TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- D17 · TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersObjectMapper.cs
- D17 · TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersObjectMapper.cs
- D17 · TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- D17 · TodoComment NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- D17 · TodoComment NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersProcessingDefinition.cs
- D17 · CommentedOutCode SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.NetFramework/Program.cs
- D17 · CommentedOutCode SqlBulkHelpers.Tests/IntegrationTests/MaterializeDataTests/CopyTableDataTests.cs
- D17 · TodoComment SqlBulkHelpers.Tests/IntegrationTests/SqlBulkLoadingTests/BulkInsertOrUpdateTests.cs
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/main.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/main.yml
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs
- D29 · High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs
- IC1 · Skeleton type — most members are unfinished DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- IC1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs
- SC1 · NuGet dependencies are not locked
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs
- GD1 · Unfinished stub — throws NotImplementedException NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs
Rebuild cost & value ~ Modeled — €4,600–€23,000
| Cost to rebuild | €4,600–€23,000 |
| Domain complexity | Standard |
| Quality factor | 0.7× (at 53% quality) |
| Size & shape | Small · 44% boilerplate · 29% straight-line · 28% branching logic |
This codebase represents roughly ~0.1 person-years of build effort (about ~€14,000 to rebuild). Its weakest lens is Readiness at 48% — the part of that asset most exposed by the findings below.
Top priorities
Diagnosis — what's actually going on
Architecture — module dependency graph
Architecture — module dependency matrix
At a glance — Code Health
At a glance — Architecture
At a glance — Maturity
At a glance — Readiness
At a glance — Security
Security & Compliance — OWASP Top-10 mapping
| OWASP category | Findings | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| A03:2021 — Injection | 11 | High / Critical |
Roadmap
First, implement automated security scanning in the CI pipeline to fail the build on vulnerabilities. Next, improve observability by standardizing structured logging and exposing diagnostics hooks. Then, maintain a changelog to track release changes. After that, document significant architectural decisions in a dedicated folder. Finally, add a testing section to the root README to clarify how to run the test suite.
| Do this | Helps | Effort | Dimension |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolve the 1 No ADRs found finding(s) in ADR Quality. | +3.4 pts | Low | ADR Quality |
| Add a SAST step to CI running what this repository's stack ships: CodeQL's csharp pack (it analyses VB.NET too), or a security analyzer package — or `semgrep --config=auto`, which runs on any language — so a security regression fails the build instead of landing. | +6.2 pts | Medium | Security & performance tooling |
| Extend structured logging across the projects you operate, and give the library ones a diagnostics seam instead — an `EventSource`/`ActivitySource` the host can subscribe to, or an optional logger on your options object — rather than taking a logging dependency on your consumers' behalf. | +6.1 pts | Medium | Observability |
| Keep a changelog (e.g. Keep-a-Changelog) recording what shipped in each release. | +6.1 pts | Medium | Release Hygiene |
| Resolve the 2 Largest orphaned file finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness — start with MaterializeDataHelper.cs, MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs. | +3.0 pts | Low | Knowledge Freshness |
| Record significant decisions one document per decision — dated, stating the context, the decision and its consequences — and keep them together wherever your design docs already live (a conventional `docs/adr/` tree with `NNNN-title.md` names is the most discoverable form). | +5.2 pts | Medium | Architecture documentation |
| Resolve the 1 Dormant codebase finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness. | +2.2 pts | Low | Knowledge Freshness |
| Add a 'Testing' section to the root README — how to run the test suite. | +4.0 pts | Medium | Documentation (README) |
File quality
| File | Score | Band | Worst signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs | 3.3 | Slop | Static Analysis (SAST): High: csharp-sqli |
| DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs | 4.8 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: csharp-sqli |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs | 5.5 | Mixed | Cyclomatic Complexity: SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts (cyclomatic 23) |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs | 5.7 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: csharp-sqli |
| .github/workflows/main.yml | 5.8 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs | 5.9 | Mixed | Cognitive Complexity: BaseSqlBulkHelper.PostProcessEntitiesWithMergeResults (cognitive 16) |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs | 6.0 | Mixed | Explicit Debt: TodoComment |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs | 6.3 | Mixed | God Classes: TooManyMethods: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataContext.cs | 7.0 | Mixed | Cohesion (LCOM4): Low cohesion: MaterializeDataContext (LCOM4 4) |
| DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs | 7.3 | Mixed | Explicit Debt: TodoComment |
| DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersObjectMapper.cs | 7.3 | Mixed | Explicit Debt: TodoComment |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs | 7.3 | Mixed | Code Coverage: Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs | 7.8 | Mixed | Code Coverage: Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs | 7.8 | Mixed | Code Coverage: Low coverage: RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/StringExtensions.cs | 7.8 | Mixed | Code Coverage: Low coverage: StringExtensions.cs |
| DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: TodoComment |
| NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersProcessingDefinition.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: TodoComment |
| SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.NetFramework/Program.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: CommentedOutCode |
| SqlBulkHelpers.Tests/IntegrationTests/MaterializeDataTests/CopyTableDataTests.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: CommentedOutCode |
| SqlBulkHelpers.Tests/IntegrationTests/SqlBulkLoadingTests/BulkInsertOrUpdateTests.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: TodoComment |
Methodology & how to trust this report
Watchdog is a deep, periodic assessment — run each sprint, monthly, or quarterly, taking the time to go wider and deeper than a quick check and surfacing in one coherent report what you'd otherwise piece together from a dozen separate tools. It scores deterministically: the same commit yields the same score, every run. 45 of 48 evaluated dimensions are computed purely by tools and static analysis (confidence 1.0); 3 documentation/naming judgement(s) are LLM-assisted and labelled advisory. Overall confidence is 0.6 — the weighted average across measured dimensions; it falls as more of the score leans on LLM-assisted judgement and rises when it's fully tool-backed.
What we checked — 48 dimensions across the health lenses
- Can you open the finding? Real findings cite a repo-relative file and line you can open at the cited line — never an absolute scratch path. Here, 78 of 85 do; the remainder are repo-wide signals — a dimension-level measurement, not a single line.
- Is there a tool behind the number? Every score below names the method that produced it — Roslyn, git, a scanner, or (for a handful of documentation/naming dimensions) an LLM labelled sampled · advisory — not a narrative.
- Does re-running give the same result? Run it again on the same commit and the score — and this report, byte for byte — is identical. A report whose numbers move between runs is describing the run, not the code.
Tools & methods
| Method | Backs | Version | Evaluator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roslyn static analysis | Complexity, cohesion, coupling, dead code, API surface, layering | 5.3.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| Native secret scanner | Hardcoded secrets / credentials | 1.0.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| jscpd | Code duplication | — | ✓ deterministic |
| Coverage (coverlet / dotnet-coverage) | Line & branch coverage | 10.0.302 | ✓ deterministic |
| NuGet / dotnet | Outdated, vulnerable & deprecated dependencies | 10.0.302 | ✓ deterministic |
| git / LibGit2Sharp | Churn hotspots, knowledge concentration, history | 2.43.0 · 0.31.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| gitleaks · semgrep · trivy | Secrets in history, SAST, CVEs, IaC & container, PII / GDPR | 1.86.0 · 0.69.3 | ✓ deterministic |
| LLM (sampled · advisory) | Documentation quality, ADR conformance, naming — sampled over a bounded sample; advisory, never a deterministic measurement | Local LLM | ◐ LLM · sampled · advisory |
Run transparency — what happened this run
A clean run — every tool resolved and ran, and every applicable dimension was measured at full confidence. No scanner was unavailable, no analysis timed out or crashed, and nothing fell back to a degraded estimate.
Limitations & what we did not check
Watchdog assesses the repository exactly as committed, and only the repository. By design it does not reach outside the source tree: the live cloud account, the running CI/CD pipeline, the host's branch-protection and approval rules, the production configuration, or a restore actually exercised against a backup are all out of scope. That boundary is a feature, not a gap — a repo-relative, deterministic scan re-runs identically on any commit and every finding opens at a real file and line, where a live audit can neither be reproduced nor traced. The visible consequence is that controls which leave no in-repo evidence are reported as "not evidenced" and excluded from the score rather than awarded a number a static scan cannot justify.
Per-dimension blind spots
- D1 Cyclomatic Complexity: Cyclomatic complexity counts branches statically — it cannot tell an essential decision tree from accidental tangle, nor see complexity that lives in data or configuration (large switch-case token tables, DSL lexers/parsers, data-as-code rule tables) rather than control flow: a tokenizer's many single-character cases read as high complexity though each branch is trivial.
- D2 Cognitive Complexity: Cognitive-complexity heuristics approximate how hard code is to follow; genuine domain difficulty and well-named intent that eases reading are not captured.
- D3 God Classes: "God class" is sized by members and responsibilities visible in the type — a deliberately broad facade over a coherent subsystem can read the same as an accidental grab-bag. For front-end JS the file-length check is cohesion-aware (a single-responsibility module — one class/IIFE — earns a 3× threshold), but cohesion is approximated from top-level declarations, not true dependency structure.
- D4 Code Duplication: Duplication is token-similarity (jscpd) — it finds copy-paste, not semantic duplication expressed differently. Committed machine-written code (scaffolded migrations, designer/codegen output, protobuf/OpenAPI stubs, model snapshots) is EXCLUDED — its repetition is the tool's, not the team's — so the score reflects hand-written duplication only.
- D5 Coupling: Coupling is measured between projects/assemblies — runtime coupling through DI, reflection, messaging or shared databases is invisible to a static reference graph.
- D6 Cohesion (LCOM4): LCOM4 cohesion is syntactic — it infers connectivity from which methods touch which fields/methods by name, not from real runtime behaviour or intent.
- D8 Code Coverage: Coverage is measured by building and running the test suite inside Watchdog's isolated image — the target repo is never modified, and nothing on your systems runs. So coverage exists only when the suite builds and runs within the inline time budget; one that needs external services, can't build, or exceeds the budget yields no coverage (D8 then degrades to not-measured, not a low score). Line coverage also says nothing about assertion quality.
- D9 Test Distribution: The test-pyramid shape is inferred from project/folder naming and references, with a single test host bucketed per-file by its path tier and content signals — a suite that names tiers unconventionally and gives no per-file signal can still be mis-bucketed.
- D10 Test Quality: Assertion density is structural — it cannot tell a meaningful behavioural assertion from a trivial one, only that an assertion is present.
- D11 Test Reliability: Flakiness is inferred from history/markers — Watchdog runs the suite once (for coverage), not the repeated runs under varied conditions that reveal nondeterminism, so a flaky test never recorded as failing is invisible here.
- D12 Dependency Hygiene: Dependency health reads manifests and lockfiles — a vulnerability in a vendored/copied dependency, or risk from how a dependency is actually used, is outside this view.
- D13 Secret Scanning: Secret detection is signature- and entropy-based on the current tree — a secret that does not match a known pattern, or one already rotated, will not be flagged (a clean scan is "nothing matched", not "no secrets exist").
- D14 License Compliance: License compatibility is checked against declared package metadata and a policy — mislabelled or missing license metadata, and obligations that depend on how you distribute, are not resolved here.
- D15 Churn × Complexity Hotspots: Churn hotspots come from git history — a freshly imported or squashed repository has no churn signal, and recent rewrites can mask a historically risky file.
- D16 Bus Factor: Bus-factor is a time-decayed model of commit attribution (who has recently, repeatedly worked a file), not comprehension — pairing, review and reading-without-committing spread knowledge it can't see; bot commits and shared accounts still distort it.
- D17 Explicit Debt: Acknowledged-debt signals (TODO/FIXME, suppressions, dead code) are textual — undocumented debt that nobody marked, and debt that lives in design rather than annotations, is invisible. Committed machine-written code (scaffolded migrations, designer/codegen output, generated stubs) is excluded — it is never the team's dead code to delete.
- D18 Solution Shape: Build integrity reflects whether the solution compiled in this environment — a build that needs a private feed, a specific SDK, or a generated file absent from the repo can read as broken when it is merely unreproducible here.
- D19 Documentation Quality: Documentation quality is judged by an LLM over a bounded sample of docs — it reads what is written, not whether the docs match the running system, and it is advisory, not a measurement.
- D20 ADR Quality: ADR quality is an LLM read of the decision records present — it cannot know about decisions made and never recorded, and its verdict is sampled and advisory.
- D21 Naming Consistency: Naming quality is an LLM judgement over a bounded sample — it assesses clarity/consistency of the names it sees, not domain-correctness, and is advisory.
- D24 Comment Value: Comment value (WHY vs WHAT) is an LLM judgement over a bounded sample — it is advisory and cannot weigh a comment against the precise code change it was written to explain.
- D26 Project Cohesion: Project focus is sized from members/namespaces per project — a project that is broad by deliberate design reads the same as one that has sprawled.
- D27 Navigability: Indirection/navigability is structural — it measures hops to follow a call, not whether that indirection buys real flexibility or just ceremony.
- D28 Secrets (history): Secret-history scanning sweeps the git log for known patterns — a secret that predates the available history, or never matched a signature, is not found (clean means "nothing matched in the history we can see").
- D29 Static Analysis (SAST): SAST findings are pattern-based (semgrep) — it finds classes of bug it has rules for; logic flaws, auth/authorization gaps and issues needing runtime context are out of reach (and clean means "no rule matched").
- D34 Knowledge Freshness: Freshness is decayed commit RECENCY, not comprehension — code read often but rarely committed reads as orphaned, and stable code that genuinely needs no changes is penalised the same as forgotten code; bot/squash commits distort it like the bus factor.
- D35 Change Coupling: Change coupling is co-change in COMMITS — files split across separate commits, or coupled only through a shared config/build step, read as uncoupled, and a sweeping commit (rename/format) is excluded so it doesn't couple everything. It shows that files change together, not WHY: a high coupling can be a healthy cohesive pair as readily as a hidden leak.
- AX10 Code composition: Role is inferred from namespace/folder convention, not semantics — a domain concept living in a folder named "Services" reads as application, and the split is lines-of-code, not business value. The business-logic-share score is a SOFT, FLOORED signal: it contributes to the Architecture lens but is floored at the Critical gate, so an infrastructure-heavy design (a gateway, an ETL, a driver) is legitimately low without being nuked to zero.
- M4 Documentation accuracy: Onboarding quality is an LLM read of the docs/setup present — it cannot run the onboarding or measure how long a real new joiner takes; the verdict is sampled and advisory.
- P4 Deployment & Rollback: Approval/branch-protection rules live in repository settings the scan cannot see — only their in-repo evidence (config files, workflows) is checked, so a control enforced purely in the host's settings reads as "not evidenced".
- P6 Release Hygiene: Rollback/observability controls are inferred from repo artefacts (pipelines, dashboards-as-code) — controls configured in external tooling, with no in-repo trace, cannot be credited.
The LLM boundary
Dimensions
D1 · Cyclomatic Complexity
1 method(s) exceeded the cyclomatic complexity threshold of 15; the worst was SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts at 23.
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
3 method(s) exceeded the cognitive complexity threshold of 15; the worst was SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts at 29.
D3 · God Classes
2 god class(es) detected.
What to do
- Resolve the 2 TooManyMethods finding(s) in God Classes — start with MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs, MaterializeDataHelper.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
- Enforce God Classes in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
D4 · Code Duplication
0 duplicated block group(s) detected.
D5 · Coupling
7 projects, 0 dependency cycle(s), 0 unstable depended-on project(s).
What to do
- Resolve the 1 Off the main sequence finding(s) in Coupling. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Enforce Coupling in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
D6 · Cohesion (LCOM4)
1 of 11 classes have LCOM4 above 3.
What to do
- Resolve the 1 Low cohesion finding(s) in Cohesion (LCOM4) — start with MaterializeDataContext.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Enforce Cohesion (LCOM4) in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Verified — provenance only; does not change the score.
D8 · Code Coverage
Line coverage 16.8% — 28 file(s) below 50% · 18 method(s) over the CRAP-30 risk line.
What to do
- Resolve the 28 Low coverage finding(s) in Code Coverage — start with BaseHelper.cs, SqlClientCustomExtensions.cs, SqlBulkHelpersConnectionProxyExistingProvider.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (28 warning-level).
- Resolve the 2 CRAP 132 finding(s) in Code Coverage — start with MaterializeDataHelper.cs, MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
- Resolve the 1 CRAP 552 finding(s) in Code Coverage — start with SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Enforce Code Coverage in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Verified — provenance only; does not change the score.
D9 · Test Distribution
75 test methods: 75 unit, 0 integration, 0 BDD, 0 e2e.
D10 · Test Quality
0 skipped, 0 zero-assertion, no mocking-framework packages referenced (hand-written doubles or no mocking) across 75 tests.
D11 · Test Reliability
0 flaky across 1 measured tier(s). unit: measured (0 flaky).
D12 · Dependency Hygiene
0 outdated, 0 vulnerable, 0 deprecated packages.
D13 · Secret Scanning
Secret scan ran and found no leaked secrets.
D14 · License Compliance
0 of 13 packages use a banned license.
D15 · Churn × Complexity Hotspots
No churn × complexity hotspots in the window.
D16 · Bus Factor
4 source file(s) have their living knowledge concentrated in one author (≥90% of recent, decayed contribution). The largest is NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs.
D17 · Explicit Debt
16 deducted debt markers + 0 dead symbols across 7442 LoC (0.3/KLoC) → score 9.4.
D18 · Solution Shape
7 projects, 152 source files, 9770 hand-written lines of code (7442 production / 2328 test), 7 inter-project edges (build failed).
D19 · Documentation Quality
The README is a solid project description that introduces both SqlBulkHelpers and MaterializedData with use cases (bulk loading thousands/sec vs offline staging tables replaced milliseconds), gives a Buy Me A Coffee link, and begins an outline of the package's features. It also starts documenting release notes for each version (v2.5.0 through v2.0) and ends with an outline naming every section present in the full document. However it is clipped mid-sentence inside the SqlBulkHelpers section, so the remaining sections (e.g. Example Usage for Materializing Data, Nuget Package, v2.4.6 Release Notes, Additional Examples) are not visible to flag as missing; this leaves the README mostly descriptive with a partial outline and no concrete usage or configuration guidance.
What to do
- Improve Documentation Quality — currently 6.0/10. — The README is a solid project description that introduces both SqlBulkHelpers and MaterializedData with use cases (bulk loading thousands/sec vs offline staging tables replaced milliseconds), gives a Buy Me A Coffee link, and begins an outline of the package's features. It also starts documenting release notes for each version (v2.5.0 through v2.0) and ends with an outline naming every section present in the full document. However it is clipped mid-sentence inside the SqlBulkHelpers section, so the remaining sections (e.g. Example Usage for Materializing Data, Nuget Package, v2.4.6 Release Notes, Additional Examples) are not visible to flag as missing; this leaves the README mostly descriptive with a partial outline and no concrete usage or configuration guidance.
D20 · ADR Quality
No architecture decision records were found.
What to do
- Resolve the 1 No ADRs found finding(s) in ADR Quality. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
D21 · Naming Consistency
0 naming inconsistencies across 200 sampled symbols.
D24 · Comment Value
32 valuable / 1 redundant across 200 sampled comments; 1 shown with locations.
D26 · Project Cohesion
0 of 6 projects flagged as possibly oversized/incoherent.
D27 · Navigability
69 % of calls cross a namespace and 2 % go through an interface, but 71 % of collaborators are co-located — so following a call takes several hops. Baseline: small — navigation cost is tolerated.
What to do
- Improve Navigability — currently 8.9/10. — 69 % of calls cross a namespace and 2 % go through an interface, but 71 % of collaborators are co-located — so following a call takes several hops. Baseline: small — navigation cost is tolerated.
D28 · Secrets (history)
gitleaks scanned the full history AND the current working tree and found no secrets.
D29 · Static Analysis (SAST)
11 finding(s): 0 critical, 11 high, 0 medium, 0 low.
What to do
- Resolve the 11 High finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs (4), SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs (4), main.yml (2). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (11 issue-level).
D34 · Knowledge Freshness
36 of 40 significant source file(s) are orphaned — their living knowledge has decayed to nothing, so no one currently understands them. The largest is NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs.
What to do
- Resolve the 2 Largest orphaned file finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness — start with MaterializeDataHelper.cs, MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 recommendation-level).
- Resolve the 1 Dormant codebase finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
D35 · Change Coupling
No strong hidden change-coupling between production files.
Frontend & cross-cutting dimensions
AX10 · Code composition
What to do
- The domain core is a small share of production code — check that business logic isn't leaking into the application/infrastructure layers (a thin domain is the anemic-domain smell).
AX3 · Project dependency cycles
AX5 · Architecture & structure
AX6 · Interface segregation
- `ISqlBulkHelpersConfig` declares 25 members. A wide interface forces every implementer and caller to depend on methods they don't use (the Interface-Segregation 'I' in SOLID). Split it into focused role-interfaces. — SqlBulkHelpersConfig.cs:26
What to do
- Split fat interfaces into focused role-interfaces so clients depend only on what they use.
AX8 · Test isolation
GD1 · Unfinished & placeholder code
- A shipped member still throws NotImplementedException — generated scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. (×9) — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:16, SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:23, SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:28, …
What to do
- Finish or delete NotImplementedException stubs and replace placeholder literals before shipping.
IC1 · Incompleteness & stubs
- `SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper` has 7 unfinished members out of 7 — a scaffolded type that was never implemented. — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:12
- `BulkInsertAsync` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:21
- `BulkInsert` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:26
- `BulkInsertOrUpdate` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. (×2) — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:31, SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:51
- `BulkInsertOrUpdateAsync` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:36
- `BulkUpdate` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:41
- `BulkUpdateAsync` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. — SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:46
- `ThrowNotImplementedException` is a shipped member whose whole body throws NotImplementedException — scaffolding that was never completed. Implement it or remove the dead surface. — SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs:112
- A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers). (×8) — BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs:87, EmbeddedResourceExtensions.cs:58, SqlClientCustomExtensions.cs:64, …
What to do
- Finish or delete the unfinished stubs (NotImplementedException / empty / constant-returning bodies) — they are dead surface that looks live.
- Clear the softer debt: remove commented-out code and dead branches, re-enable or delete skipped tests, and replace blanket warning suppressions with targeted ones.
M1 · Documentation (README)
What to do
- Add a 'Testing' section to the root README — how to run the test suite.
- Add an 'Architecture' / 'How it works' section to the root README — the high-level shape.
- Add a README to the 6 of 6 project(s) that lack one — worth up to 2 pts.
M2 · Architecture documentation
- No Architecture Decision Records found — no conventional ADR directory, no `NNNN-title.md` documents and nothing ADR-shaped by content. Design rationale recorded elsewhere (a design-notes tree, a mailing list, pull-request discussion) is not visible to this check and is not re-findable per decision, so a future maintainer cannot ask why one choice was made and get an answer.
- No C4/PlantUML/Mermaid diagram or architecture.md — the high-level shape isn't documented.
What to do
- Record significant decisions one document per decision — dated, stating the context, the decision and its consequences — and keep them together wherever your design docs already live (a conventional `docs/adr/` tree with `NNNN-title.md` names is the most discoverable form).
- Add a C4 context/container diagram (Structurizr, PlantUML or Mermaid) or an architecture.md overview.
M3 · Folder & project structure
- Production code isn't grouped under a src/ folder — it's spread across several top-level directories, so there's no one place that says 'this is the product'.
What to do
- Group production code under src/ (or split deliberately, e.g. backend/ + frontend/) so production and tooling code aren't mixed at the root.
M4 · Documentation accuracy
P1 · CI/CD gates
- A CI pipeline exists and the word "test" appears, but no explicit test-runner invocation (your stack's test command, or a test job) was matched — so either the gate runs tests through a step this pass could not recognise, or "test" is incidental here (a path, "latest", a reporter). Check the coverage dimensions first: if this repo has no test suite yet, that is the finding and this row follows from it. If a suite does exist, make the runner step explicit so the gate is unambiguous.
What to do
- Run the test suite in CI via an explicit runner step for your stack, and gate merges on it.
P2 · Observability
- Only 1/3 service-like projects use logging (pure contract/DTO projects are excluded — they have nothing to log). Of those 3, 1 ship a process this repository operates; the rest are libraries their consumer hosts, where the logging decision belongs to the host.
What to do
- Extend structured logging across the projects you operate, and give the library ones a diagnostics seam instead — an `EventSource`/`ActivitySource` the host can subscribe to, or an optional logger on your options object — rather than taking a logging dependency on your consumers' behalf.
- Consider OpenTelemetry tracing/metrics and a health-check endpoint for operability.
P3 · Security & performance tooling
- No static application security testing detected. For this repository's stack, add CodeQL's csharp pack (it analyses VB.NET too), or a security analyzer package (or `semgrep --config=auto`, which runs on any language) as a CI step.
What to do
- Add a SAST step to CI running what this repository's stack ships: CodeQL's csharp pack (it analyses VB.NET too), or a security analyzer package — or `semgrep --config=auto`, which runs on any language — so a security regression fails the build instead of landing.
- Enable Dependabot/Renovate or a dependency-review gate.
- Add gitleaks/trufflehog in CI to block PRs that introduce committed secrets.
P4 · Deployment & Rollback
P6 · Release Hygiene
- No CHANGELOG/HISTORY/RELEASES file — what shipped when isn't easy to reconstruct for support or audit. (Versioning/tagging makes releases traceable, but a changelog records the what.)
What to do
- Keep a changelog (e.g. Keep-a-Changelog) recording what shipped in each release.
X1 · Async correctness
X2 · Cancellation propagation
- Only 0/66 async methods accept a CancellationToken, so in-flight work can't be stopped early when the caller gives up — whatever ends it in your host (shutdown signal, timeout, abandoned request, user cancel). Thread a token through the call chain and honour it at each await and loop; where a method genuinely cannot be interrupted, omitting it is a deliberate choice — judge against your hosting model.
- No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started. (×25) — SqlBulkHelpersSampleAsync.cs:12, SystemDataSqlClientCustomExtensions.cs:41, SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs:27, …
What to do
- Thread a CancellationToken through async methods so work stops promptly on cancellation.
X3 · Exception handling
X4 · Structured logging
X5 · Nullable reference types
- 0/1 NRT-eligible project(s) enable <Nullable>enable</Nullable> (projects targeting a pre-C#-8 framework are excluded — NRTs aren't available there). NRTs catch a whole class of null-deref bugs at compile time.
What to do
- Enable <Nullable>enable</Nullable> across all projects and resolve warnings rather than suppressing with `!`.
Reference — by lens
| Lens | Score | Rating | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code Health | 59% | Adequate — gated by X5 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Architecture | 97% | Exemplary | Strongest area. |
| Maturity | 50% | Adequate — gated by D34, M2 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Readiness | 48% | Weak — gated by P3 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Security | 57% | Adequate — gated by D29 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
Not included — 49 check(s) not relevant to this codebase
- AC1 Text alternatives — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC2 Forms & labels — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC3 Page structure — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC4 Keyboard semantics — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC5 ARIA correctness — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC6 Visual & motion safety — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC7 A11y enforcement — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AX1 Captive dependencies — no DI registrations detected
- AX2 Stateful singletons — no singleton implementations detected
- AX4 Dependency direction — not applicable to a CQRS architecture (the inward-dependency rule is for layered/clean styles)
- AX7 Slice cohesion — not applicable — not a vertical-slice architecture
- AX9 CQS / query purity — no CQRS query handlers detected — query purity is not applicable to this codebase
- AXB2 Runtime readiness — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
- C1 Data Protection — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- C2 Access Controls — No access-control surface detected in the analyzed source — no web/app surface to authorize (no HTTP API or web-UI project) and no authorization code at all (no [Authorize]/policies, no imperative guard methods). Access control is therefore N/A here — this is a library/CLI, which is authorized by its CALLER, not by itself. If this codebase grows request handlers, the dimension reactivates and a default-deny posture is expected then.
- C3 Audit Trail — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- C4 Data Retention — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- C5 Data-Subject Rights — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- D22 Internal API Consistency — No exposed public API
- D23 Boundary Type-Coupling — Bounded contexts not declared
- D25 ADR Conformance — no ADRs to check
- D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — `dotnet list package --vulnerable` could not read this solution's dependency graph — it reported an error for at least one project and returned no package data at all (typically a packages.config / non-PackageReference project, which the command cannot read; classic .NET Framework projects are packages.config by default). No packages could be enumerated, so there was nothing to scan for NuGet CVEs — excluded rather than scored, because an unreadable dependency graph is not a clean one; migrate the project(s) to PackageReference to enable this scan
- D31 IaC & Container Security — No Infrastructure-as-Code or container manifests found (Dockerfile, Terraform, Kubernetes/Helm, CloudFormation); nothing to scan.
- D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — No PII/GDPR-handling patterns detected (p/gdpr ruleset) — no data-compliance surface to assess.
- D33 JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities — No JS/npm manifest or lockfile found outside build output (package.json, package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lockb); no JS dependencies to scan.
- D36 Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — The CI pipeline builds and tests but publishes no released artifact — no package publish, container push, GitHub release or deployment step. Supply-chain provenance, signing and SBOM attest RELEASED artifacts, so there is nothing to attest here. Add them to the release pipeline when this repo starts shipping artifacts (a published package, a container image, a deployed service or a tagged release).
- D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md/.markdown/.rst/.txt at root or under .github/.forgejo/.gitea/docs, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed.
- D38 OSV Dependency Vulnerabilities — No supported non-.NET dependency lockfile found outside build output (npm package-lock/yarn/pnpm/bun, Go go.mod, Rust Cargo.lock, Maven pom.xml, Gradle lockfiles, Python requirements.txt/poetry.lock/Pipfile.lock/pdm.lock, PHP composer.lock, Ruby Gemfile.lock, Elixir mix.lock, Dart pubspec.lock, Swift Package.resolved); nothing for OSV to scan. A NuGet-only repo stays NotApplicable — .NET CVEs are D30's domain.
- D39 IL Efficiency — The target did not build, so no IL was available to measure.
- D40 Network Egress Confinement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; network egress policy is a cluster-native control that may live at the platform/firewall layer, so there is nothing to assess here.
- D41 Kernel & Syscall Confinement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux confinement is a workload-level control, so there is nothing to assess here.
- D42 Runtime Threat Enforcement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; runtime threat-detection and admission-control policy are cluster-level controls, so there is nothing to assess here.
- D7 Architectural Integrity — no checkable ADRs and no dependency cycles — architectural integrity not assessed
- DM1 Domain Modelling — not scored — this repository shows none of the 3 signals this check looks for
- ED1 Event-Driven — not scored — this repository shows only 1 of the 3 signals this check looks for (1 CQRS handler(s))
- ED5 Idempotency — no mutating command handlers or message consumers detected — idempotency check not applicable
- ES1 Event Sourcing — not scored — this repository shows none of the 3 signals this check looks for
- P12 CI test-gate honesty — Reported, not scored — and nothing was matched here. The coverage check applies to any stack, but the checks for excluded tests, skipped tests and sleep-based synchronisation currently recognise only some ecosystems' test-runner idioms, so on a repository built with another stack the zeros below mean 'not checked', not 'clean'.
- P5 DR & Backup — not evidenced — repo shows no backup/RTO/RPO controls; absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control
- P7 Outbound HTTP resilience — not applicable — this isn't a service/API/worker
- P8 Schema migrations — no EF Core usage detected
- P9 Domain vs controller coverage — coverage data present but no domain-layer files were identified (no /Domain//Aggregates/ paths)
- PF1 Benchmark discipline — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
- PF2 Allocation hygiene — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
- PF3 Async & latency hygiene — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
- S1 Web-Security Posture — No web surface detected in the analyzed source — no HTTP API or web-UI project (no controllers/minimal-API endpoints, no Razor/Blazor views) and no web middleware (HTTPS redirection, HSTS, security headers, cookies). Transport security, security headers, secure cookies, CSRF/input-validation and middleware-order controls are therefore N/A here — this is a library/CLI/worker, not a web app. Crypto hygiene was still checked and found nothing to flag. If this codebase becomes web-facing, the dimension reactivates automatically.
- SC1 Supply-chain hygiene — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
- X6 Hand-rolled structured-format parsing — Reported, not scored — this card publishes what it found rather than grading it. Its content is the findings and the key metric above.
- X7 Silent fallback defaults — Reported, not scored — this card publishes what it found rather than grading it. Its content is the findings and the key metric above.
Appendix A — Findings (grouped)
Issue — 11 finding(s)
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/main.yml:24
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/main.yml:36
- High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs:82
- High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs:93
- High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs:137
- High: csharp-sqli DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkIdentityHelper.cs:146
- High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs:32
- High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs:63
- High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs:76
- High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs:160
- High: csharp-sqli NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs:172
Warning — 54 finding(s)
- Low coverage: BaseHelper.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/BaseHelper.cs
- Low coverage: SqlClientCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/SqlClientCustomExtensions.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersConnectionProxyExistingProvider.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersConnectionProxyExistingProvider.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Async.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Async.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Sync.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaLoader.Sync.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs
- Low coverage: BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersDataReader.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersMergeAction.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeAction.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkCopyFactory.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkCopyFactory.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Processing.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelperSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelperSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkLambdaPropertyConverter.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkLambdaPropertyConverter.cs
- Low coverage: CloneTableInfo.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/CloneTableInfo.cs
- Low coverage: MaterializationTableInfo.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializationTableInfo.cs
- Low coverage: MaterializeDataContext.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataContext.cs
- Low coverage: MaterializeDataHelper.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- Low coverage: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs
- Low coverage: MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs
- Low coverage: EmbeddedResourceExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/EmbeddedResourceExtensions.cs
- Low coverage: RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs
- Low coverage: SqlBulkHelpersCustomExtensions.cs NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/SqlBulkHelpersCustomExtensions.cs
- TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs:56
- TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs:86
- TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersObjectMapper.cs:13
- TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersObjectMapper.cs:21
- TodoComment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkNaturalKeyHelper.cs:8
- TodoComment NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs:342
- TodoComment NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersProcessingDefinition.cs:128
- TodoComment SqlBulkHelpers.Tests/IntegrationTests/SqlBulkLoadingTests/BulkInsertOrUpdateTests.cs:231
- CommentedOutCode SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.NetFramework/Program.cs:34
- CommentedOutCode SqlBulkHelpers.Tests/IntegrationTests/MaterializeDataTests/CopyTableDataTests.cs:53
- TooManyMethods: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs:0
- TooManyMethods: MaterializeDataHelper NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs:0
- CRAP 132: MaterializeDataHelper.ClearTablesAsync NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs:460
- CRAP 132: MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.AddFullTextIndex NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataScriptBuilder.cs:525
- SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts (cyclomatic 23) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs:12
- SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts (cognitive 29) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs:12
- MaterializeDataHelper.ClearTablesAsync (cognitive 22) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs:460
- BaseSqlBulkHelper.PostProcessEntitiesWithMergeResults (cognitive 16) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs:68
- Off the main sequence: NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers(netstandard2.0)
- Low cohesion: MaterializeDataContext (LCOM4 4) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataContext.cs:10
- CRAP 552: SqlBulkHelpersMergeScriptBuilder.BuildSqlMergeScripts NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs:12
- CRAP 210: BaseSqlBulkHelper.PostProcessEntitiesWithMergeResults NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs:68
- CRAP 136: RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.FindRepoDbPropertyHandler NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/RepoDbDynamicCustomExtensions.cs:14
- CRAP 90: BaseSqlBulkHelper.ResolveIdentitySetterAction NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/BaseSqlBulkHelper.cs:154
- CRAP 83: StringExtensions.Replace NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/CustomExtensions/StringExtensions.cs:30
- CRAP 75: TableColumnDefinition.BuildColumnTypeSql NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/Database/SqlBulkHelpersDBSchemaModels.cs:212
Recommendation — 13 finding(s)
- ObsoleteWithoutCallers NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs:12
- ObsoleteWithoutCallers NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs:29
- ObsoleteWithoutCallers NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs:46
- ObsoleteWithoutCallers NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs:63
- ObsoleteWithoutCallers NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs:80
- ObsoleteWithoutCallers NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelper/SqlBulkHelper.Invocation.DeprecatedV1.cs:97
- Largest orphaned file NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializeDataHelper.cs
- Largest orphaned file NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/MaterializedData/MaterializedDataSqlClientExtensionsApi.cs
- Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1
- No ADRs found
- Bounded contexts not declared
- redundant comment DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/SqlBulkHelpers/QueryProcessing/SqlBulkHelpersMergeQueryBuilder.cs:18
- Dormant codebase
Info — 7 finding(s)
- XML-doc coverage: SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.NetFramework SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.NetFramework/SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.NetFramework.csproj
- XML-doc coverage: DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers-Deprecated DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers/DotNetFramework.SqlBulkHelpers-Deprecated.csproj
- XML-doc coverage: NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers(netstandard2.0) NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers/NetStandard.SqlBulkHelpers.csproj
- XML-doc coverage: SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.Net6 SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.Net6/SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.Net6.csproj
- XML-doc coverage: SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.Common SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.Common/SqlBulkHelpers.SampleApp.Common.csproj
- Build did not complete in the analyzer
- No exposed public API
Appendix B — Reproduction & audit trail
| Dimension | Tool | Version | Command | Findings | Raw output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D28 · Secrets (history) | gitleaks | — | gitleaks detect --no-banner --report-format json --report-path /dev/stdout --exit-code 0 --source . | 0 | artifacts/raw/gitleaks-history.json |
| D29 · Static Analysis (SAST) | semgrep | — | semgrep --config /opt/semgrep-rules/security-audit.yml --config /opt/semgrep-rules/owasp-top-ten.yml --json --quiet --timeout 0 --metrics off . | 11 | artifacts/raw/semgrep.json |
| D30 · Dependency Vulnerabilities | dotnet | — | dotnet: not applicable — `dotnet list package --vulnerable` could not read this solution's dependency graph — it reported an error for at least one project and returned no package data at all (typically a packages.config / non-PackageReference project, which the command cannot read; classic .NET Framework projects are packages.config by default). No packages could be enumerated, so there was nothing to scan for NuGet CVEs — excluded rather than scored, because an unreadable dependency graph is not a clean one; migrate the project(s) to PackageReference to enable this scan | 0 | — |
| D31 · IaC & Container Security | trivy | — | trivy: not applicable — No Infrastructure-as-Code or container manifests found (Dockerfile, Terraform, Kubernetes/Helm, CloudFormation); nothing to scan. | 0 | — |
| D32 · Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) | semgrep | — | semgrep: not applicable — No PII/GDPR-handling patterns detected (p/gdpr ruleset) — no data-compliance surface to assess. | 0 | — |
| D33 · JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities | trivy | — | trivy: not applicable — No JS/npm manifest or lockfile found outside build output (package.json, package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lockb); no JS dependencies to scan. | 0 | — |
| D36 · Supply-chain Provenance & Signing | provenance | — | provenance: not applicable — The CI pipeline builds and tests but publishes no released artifact — no package publish, container push, GitHub release or deployment step. Supply-chain provenance, signing and SBOM attest RELEASED artifacts, so there is nothing to attest here. Add them to the release pipeline when this repo starts shipping artifacts (a published package, a container image, a deployed service or a tagged release). | 0 | — |
| D37 · Vulnerability-disclosure Policy | disclosure | — | disclosure: not applicable — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md/.markdown/.rst/.txt at root or under .github/.forgejo/.gitea/docs, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed. | 0 | — |
| D38 · OSV Dependency Vulnerabilities | osv-scanner | — | osv-scanner: not applicable — No supported non-.NET dependency lockfile found outside build output (npm package-lock/yarn/pnpm/bun, Go go.mod, Rust Cargo.lock, Maven pom.xml, Gradle lockfiles, Python requirements.txt/poetry.lock/Pipfile.lock/pdm.lock, PHP composer.lock, Ruby Gemfile.lock, Elixir mix.lock, Dart pubspec.lock, Swift Package.resolved); nothing for OSV to scan. A NuGet-only repo stays NotApplicable — .NET CVEs are D30's domain. | 0 | — |
| D40 · Network Egress Confinement | runtime-hardening | — | runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; network egress policy is a cluster-native control that may live at the platform/firewall layer, so there is nothing to assess here. | 0 | — |
| D41 · Kernel & Syscall Confinement | runtime-hardening | — | runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux confinement is a workload-level control, so there is nothing to assess here. | 0 | — |
| D42 · Runtime Threat Enforcement | runtime-hardening | — | runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; runtime threat-detection and admission-control policy are cluster-level controls, so there is nothing to assess here. | 0 | — |