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.
imct.jesus.antonio/ticketsapi-net carries serious risk (25%). Several issues below can materially affect reliability, security, or the cost of change and warrant near-term attention.
It is strongest in Architecture (95%) — the structure is clean and changes stay contained.
The area that most needs attention is Readiness (18%) — operating, monitoring and recovering the system safely is harder. Maturity (22%) 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: CI workflow that builds and runs the test suite on every push/PR (CI/CD gates); ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across… (Observability); tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through… (Test Coverage).
For scale: Small (~5,179 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 (95%); the priorities above are the highest-leverage way to bring the rest up to that level.
Code Health
33%
Weak · gated by R1, R2, R3, X1
Architecture
95% ★
Exemplary
Maturity
22% ⚠
Critical · gated by M1, M2, M4
Readiness
18% ⚠
Critical · gated by R4, R6, P1, P2, P3
Security
32%
Weak · gated by C1, C2, S1
Accessibility
40%
Weak · gated by AC1
How the score is built — each lens's share of the headline
Width is the lens's weight in the worst-heaviest fold (the weakest area pulls hardest); colour is that lens's own band. A lens fixes the score in proportion to its width.
Readiness 18% · 46% weightMaturity 22% · 25% weightSecurity 32% · 14% weightCode Health 33% · 8% weightAccessibility 40% · 4% weightArchitecture 95% · 2% weight
Raise Readiness 18 → 70 (the Healthy floor) ⇒ headline 25 → ~31.
Code composition — where the lines go
Business logic 30%Plumbing 65%Tests 3%Generated 2%
Rebuild cost & value ~ Modeled — €2,200–€11,000
| Cost to rebuild | €2,200–€11,000 |
| Domain complexity | Standard |
| Quality factor | 0.7× (at 25% quality) |
| Size & shape | Small · 42% boilerplate · 26% straight-line · 32% branching logic |
This codebase represents roughly ~0.1 person-years of build effort (about ~€6,700 to rebuild). Its weakest lens is Readiness at 18% — the part of that asset most exposed by the findings below.
Top priorities
1
Resolve the 3 No assertions finding(s) in Test Quality — start with ValuesControllerTest.cs (3).
2
Add a CI workflow that builds and runs the test suite on every push/PR.
3
Adopt ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across the projects.
Diagnosis — what's actually going on
Value concentrated against a weak lens
This is a Small asset (~0.1 person-years to rebuild), and its weakest lens is Readiness at 18%. The operational and business risk on an asset this size concentrates there — that's where remediation buys the most protection.
Highest-leverage move
Of everything flagged, the best return on effort is: Add a CI workflow that builds and runs the test suite on every push/PR. The rest can wait behind it.
Improving trajectory
The headline is improving steadily (+4.8 pts/run over 9 runs) — whatever you're doing is working; keep the gate.
Trajectory
OverallCode HealthArchitectureMaturityReadinessSecurityAccessibility
Architecture — module dependency graph
At a glance — Code Health
The Good
D1 · .NET / C#
Cyclomatic Complexity
9.8
D2 · .NET / C#
Cognitive Complexity
9.1
D3 · .NET / C#
God Classes
10.0
D4 · .NET / C#
Code Duplication
9.9
D17 · .NET / C#
Explicit Debt
9.8
D18 · .NET / C#
Solution Shape
10.0
GD1 · Repo
Unfinished & placeholder code
10.0
IC1 · Repo
Incompleteness & stubs
10.0
R10 · React / TS
Code Duplication
9.5
R7 · React / TS
Dead Code
10.0
X3 · Repo
Exception handling
10.0
X4 · Repo
Structured logging
10.0
The Ugly
At a glance — Architecture
The Good
D6 · .NET / C#
Cohesion (LCOM4)
10.0
D26 · .NET / C#
Project Cohesion
10.0
D35 · .NET / C#
Change Coupling
10.0
AX10 · Repo
Code composition
9.3
AX3 · Repo
Project dependency cycles
10.0
AX4 · Repo
Dependency direction
10.0
AX5 · Repo
Architecture & structure
10.0
AX6 · Repo
Interface segregation
10.0
R9 · React / TS
Circular Imports
10.0
The Bad
At a glance — Maturity
The Good
The Ugly
At a glance — Readiness
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
At a glance — Security
The Ugly
At a glance — Accessibility
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
Roadmap
First, establish a continuous integration pipeline to automatically build and test every code change. Next, implement structured logging and health checks to ensure system observability. Then, expand test coverage to include all production modules. After that, configure tooling scripts for linting and type checking within the CI process. Finally, create a root README to document the system's purpose, build instructions, and project structure.
| Do this | Helps | Effort | Dimension |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolve the 3 No assertions finding(s) in Test Quality — start with ValuesControllerTest.cs (3). | +5.5 pts | Low | Test Quality |
| Add a CI workflow that builds and runs the test suite on every push/PR. | +7.8 pts | Medium | CI/CD gates |
| Adopt ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across the projects. | +7.8 pts | Medium | Observability |
| Add tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through their public entry). | +7.8 pts | Medium | Test Coverage |
| Add the missing tooling (eslint, tsc) as package.json scripts and run them in CI. | +7.8 pts | Medium | Tooling |
| Resolve the 1 Low XML-doc coverage finding(s) in Documentation Quality — start with AxosnetAPI.csproj. | +3.5 pts | Low | Documentation Quality |
| Add a root README: what the system is, how to build/run it, and a map of the projects. | +5.6 pts | Medium | Documentation (README) |
| Start an ADR log (docs/adr/) recording significant decisions and their rationale. | +5.6 pts | Medium | Architecture documentation |
File quality
| File | Score | Band | Worst signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/HelpPageConfigurationExtensions.cs | 6.7 | Mixed | Explicit Debt: CommentedOutCode |
| AxosnetAPI.Tests/Controllers/ValuesControllerTest.cs | 7.4 | Mixed | Test Quality: No assertions: Post |
| AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/ModelDescriptions/ModelDescriptionGenerator.cs | 7.8 | Mixed | Cyclomatic Complexity: ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription (cyclomatic 17) |
| AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/App_Start/HelpPageConfig.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: CommentedOutCode |
| AxosnetAPI/Service/Result.cs | 8.2 | Near-clean | Explicit Debt: CommentedOutCode |
| AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/SampleGeneration/HelpPageSampleGenerator.cs | 8.5 | Near-clean | Cognitive Complexity: HelpPageSampleGenerator.GetSample (cognitive 19) |
| AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/SampleGeneration/ObjectGenerator.cs | 8.5 | Near-clean | Cognitive Complexity: ObjectGenerator.GenerateGenericType (cognitive 18) |
| AxosnetAPI/Service/EncryptionService.cs | 8.5 | Near-clean | Code Duplication: Duplicated block (10 lines × 2) |
| AxosnetAPI/AxosnetAPI.csproj | 8.5 | Near-clean | Documentation Quality: Low XML-doc coverage: AxosnetAPI |
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. 52 of 55 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 0.5 — 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 — 55 dimensions across the health lenses
D1D2D3D4D5D6D9D10D12D13D15D17D18D19D21D24D26D28D29D35AC1AC2AC3AC6AC7AX10AX3AX4AX5AX6C1C2GD1IC1M1M2M3M4P1P2P3P8R1R10R2R3R4R6R7R8R9S1X1X3X4
How to trust any code-health report — three questions
- 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, 13 of 23 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 | 10.0.301 | ✓ deterministic |
| NuGet / dotnet | Outdated, vulnerable & deprecated dependencies | 10.0.301 | ✓ deterministic |
| git / LibGit2Sharp | Churn hotspots, knowledge concentration, history | 2.43.0 · 0.31.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| gitleaks · semgrep · trivy · checkov | 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
- D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D31 IaC & Container Security — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D33 JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D36 Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D38 OSV Dependency Vulnerabilities — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
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 (EF migration scaffolds, *.Designer.cs, model snapshots) is EXCLUDED — its repetition is the tool's, not the team's — so the score reflects hand-written duplication only; the generated footprint is reported separately under Solution Shape.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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").
- 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.
- 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 (EF migrations, designer files, snapshots) 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.
- 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.
- 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").
- 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.
- AC1 Text alternatives: Alt-text is detected structurally — the scan sees that an alternative EXISTS, not whether it meaningfully describes the image, and decorative-vs-missing is judged by attribute shape; runtime-injected images and a non-role=img decorative svg are out of scope. This is accessibility readiness, never a WCAG conformance claim.
- AC2 Forms & labels: Label association is read from static markup — a label wired up at runtime (JS-set aria-labelledby, framework-injected ids) reads as missing, a present label says nothing about whether its text is correct. A known UI-library field component (e.g. a JSX <TextField>) is now checked conservatively — flagged only when it carries NO label/aria-label/aria-labelledby/id/name — but wrapper/context-labelled libraries (Chakra/Radix FormControl+FormLabel) aren't statically visible (possible false positive) and non-JSX lowercased components are still skipped. A clean result is "no unlabelled native control found", not a labelling proof.
- AC3 Page structure: Page structure is read from the static markup tree — landmarks, headings and lang injected at runtime aren't seen, heading ORDER is checked structurally (not against the rendered visual hierarchy), and lang/title/main fire only on full documents, never partials, and the data-table check sees header-cell presence (a <th> exists), not whether each header correctly associates with its cells. Static readiness, not conformance.
- AC6 Visual & motion safety: Contrast and motion safety are PARTIAL by construction — literal colours (hex/rgb/hsl/named) in inline styles, in-repo <style> blocks, in-repo .css files, var() tokens, Tailwind neutral utilities and CSS-in-JS top-level declarations are read (same-rule/same-element colour+background pairs only); computed/runtime/theme colour, external-CDN stylesheets, CSS-in-JS dynamic (${…}) and nested-selector colours, cross-element pairs and image contrast stay out of reach, so a clean result is bounded by what the static CSS itself shows.
- AC7 A11y enforcement: Enforcement is scored from in-repo config/CI evidence only — an a11y gate enforced in external tooling with no in-repo trace can't be credited, and a configured linter is presence, not proof the rules actually run or block a merge.
- 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.
The LLM boundary
Dimensions
D1 · Cyclomatic Complexity
1 method(s) exceeded the cyclomatic complexity threshold of 15; the worst was ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription at 17.
ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription (cyclomatic 17)AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/ModelDescriptions/ModelDescriptionGenerator.cs:110
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D2 · Cognitive Complexity
4 method(s) exceeded the cognitive complexity threshold of 15; the worst was ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription at 25.
ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription (cognitive 25)AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/ModelDescriptions/ModelDescriptionGenerator.cs:110
HelpPageConfigurationExtensions.GenerateUriParameters (cognitive 24)AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/HelpPageConfigurationExtensions.cs:254
HelpPageSampleGenerator.GetSample (cognitive 19)AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/SampleGeneration/HelpPageSampleGenerator.cs:90
ObjectGenerator.GenerateGenericType (cognitive 18)AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/SampleGeneration/ObjectGenerator.cs:104
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D3 · God Classes
0 god class(es) detected.
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D4 · Code Duplication
1 duplicated block group(s) detected.
Duplicated block (10 lines × 2)AxosnetAPI/Service/EncryptionService.cs:44
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D5 · Coupling
2 projects, 0 dependency cycle(s), 0 unstable depended-on project(s).
Off the main sequence: AxosnetAPI
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.
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D6 · Cohesion (LCOM4)
0 of 14 classes have LCOM4 above 3.
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D9 · Test Distribution
9 test methods: 9 unit, 0 integration, 0 BDD, 0 e2e.
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D10 · Test Quality
0 skipped, 3 zero-assertion, no mocking-framework packages referenced (hand-written doubles or no mocking) across 9 tests.
No assertions: Post AxosnetAPI.Tests/Controllers/ValuesControllerTest.cs:45
What to do
- Resolve the 3 No assertions finding(s) in Test Quality — start with ValuesControllerTest.cs (3). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (3 warning-level).
- Enforce Test Quality in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
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D12 · Dependency Hygiene
0 outdated, 0 vulnerable, 0 deprecated packages.
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D13 · Secret Scanning
Secret scan ran and found no leaked secrets.
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D15 · Churn × Complexity Hotspots
No churn × complexity hotspots in the window.
git history depth insufficient
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D17 · Explicit Debt
3 deducted debt markers + 0 dead symbols across 5049 LoC (0.1/KLoC) → score 9.8.
CommentedOutCode AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/App_Start/HelpPageConfig.cs:42
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D18 · Solution Shape
2 projects, 66 .cs files, 5202 hand-written lines of code (5049 production / 153 test), plus 130 generated (EF migrations / designer / snapshots, excluded from quality), 1 inter-project edges (build failed).
Build did not complete in the analyzer
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D19 · Documentation Quality
The documentation is mostly thin and non-existent for the project as a whole — only READMEs are present with no architecture or design material, and XML coverage of AxosnetAPI under development is below threshold. The absence of any cohesive structure means readers cannot find guidance on installation, configuration, API reference, or usage.
Low XML-doc coverage: AxosnetAPIAxosnetAPI/AxosnetAPI.csproj
What to do
- Resolve the 1 Low XML-doc coverage finding(s) in Documentation Quality — start with AxosnetAPI.csproj. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
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D21 · Naming Consistency
1 naming inconsistencies across 200 sampled symbols.
Typo in type and method name: 'Sesion' is used instead of the correct spelling 'Session'.
What to do
- Resolve the 1 Typo in type and method name finding(s) in Naming Consistency. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
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D24 · Comment Value
42 valuable / 0 redundant across 200 sampled comments.
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D26 · Project Cohesion
0 of 2 projects flagged as possibly oversized/incoherent.
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D28 · Secrets (history)
gitleaks scanned the full history AND the current working tree and found no secrets.
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D29 · Static Analysis (SAST)
semgrep found no security issues.
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D35 · Change Coupling
No strong hidden change-coupling between production files.
git history depth insufficient
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Frontend & cross-cutting dimensions
AC1 · Text alternatives
- An image with no alt (and no aria-label/aria-labelledby) is unreadable to assistive tech. Add alt — alt="" if it's purely decorative. — ImageSample.cshtml:4
What to do
- Add a text alternative — alt on images (alt="" for purely decorative ones), a title or aria-label on meaningful svg, and a captions <track> on video.
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AC2 · Forms & labels
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AC3 · Page structure
- No <main> (or role="main") means no "skip to content" target and a weaker landmark map. Wrap the primary content in <main>. (×3) — _Layout.cshtml:2, Error.cshtml:2, _Layout.cshtml:2
- The page declares no language, so assistive tech can't pick the right pronunciation. Add lang (e.g. lang="en"). (×2) — Error.cshtml:2, _Layout.cshtml:2
What to do
- Declare <html lang>, a document <title> and a <main> landmark, keep headings in order, leave zoom enabled, title iframes and drop meta-refresh.
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AC6 · Visual & motion safety
- A CSS rule's foreground/background colour pair falls below the 4.5:1 WCAG AA minimum for normal text. Darken or lighten one of them. — bootstrap.css:0
What to do
- Keep a visible focus style (don't remove the outline without a replacement), guard animation with prefers-reduced-motion, and raise low-contrast colour pairs to at least 4.5:1.
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AC7 · A11y enforcement
- No accessibility enforcement found — no a11y linter (eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y / vuejs-accessibility) and no axe/pa11y/Lighthouse in tests or CI. Start with the linter to catch issues at author time.
What to do
- Enforce accessibility in the toolchain: add eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y (or vuejs-accessibility), assert with jest-axe / playwright-axe in tests, then gate axe/pa11y/Lighthouse in CI.
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AX10 · Code composition
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AX3 · Project dependency cycles
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AX4 · Dependency direction
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AX5 · Architecture & structure
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AX6 · Interface segregation
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C1 · Data Protection
What to do
- Strengthen data-at-rest protection: vault your keys (Azure Key Vault / AWS KMS / IDataProtector key ring) and encrypt the most sensitive columns (EF HasConversion encryption or provider-native column encryption) — partial coverage still leaves gaps.
- Enforce HTTPS (UseHttpsRedirection / RequireHttpsMetadata) so data in transit is always encrypted.
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C2 · Access Controls
- No [Authorize]/policies and no imperative guard methods (throw-on-violation) were found — endpoints may be unprotected.
What to do
- Protect endpoints by default-deny: [Authorize] + role/policy authorization, or imperative guard methods (throw-on-violation) called from every handler.
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GD1 · Unfinished & placeholder code
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IC1 · Incompleteness & stubs
- A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers). (×15) — ReceiptAction.cs:131, SesionAction.cs:151, HelpPageConfig.cs:64, …
What to do
- 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.
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M1 · Documentation (README)
- No README at the repository root — newcomers have no entry point.
What to do
- Add a root README: what the system is, how to build/run it, and a map of the projects.
- Add a README to the 2 of 2 project(s) that lack one — worth up to 2 pts.
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M2 · Architecture documentation
- No Architecture Decision Records found — decisions aren't captured for future maintainers.
- No C4/PlantUML/Mermaid diagram or architecture.md — the high-level shape isn't documented.
What to do
- Start an ADR log (docs/adr/) recording significant decisions and their rationale.
- Add a C4 context/container diagram (Structurizr, PlantUML or Mermaid) or an architecture.md overview.
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M3 · Folder & project structure
- Projects aren't grouped under a src/ folder — production and tooling code are mixed at the root.
- Test projects aren't grouped under a tests/ folder — the test surface isn't separable from production code at a glance.
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.
- Group test projects under tests/ (or test/, spec/) so the test surface is discoverable and CI can scope it.
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M4 · Documentation accuracy
- There is no README, so nothing documents what the system is or how it works.
What to do
- Add a README describing the system, how to build/run it, and keep it current.
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P1 · CI/CD gates
- No CI workflow found (.github/workflows, azure-pipelines.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml, …) — changes aren't gated by an automated build/test.
What to do
- Add a CI workflow that builds and runs the test suite on every push/PR.
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P2 · Observability
- No ILogger/Serilog usage found — production issues will be hard to diagnose.
What to do
- Adopt ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across the projects.
- Consider OpenTelemetry tracing/metrics and a health-check endpoint for operability.
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P3 · Security & performance tooling
- No static application security testing (CodeQL / security analyzers / codehealth) detected.
What to do
- Add a SAST step (e.g. CodeQL) or a security analyzer package.
- Enable Dependabot/Renovate or a dependency-review gate.
- Add gitleaks/trufflehog in CI to block PRs that introduce committed secrets.
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P8 · Schema migrations
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R1 · Type Safety
- 0 typed · 5 plain JS
What to do
- Migrate the remaining .js/.jsx files to TypeScript.
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R10 · Code Duplication
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:2 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:47 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:101 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:164 — jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:2
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:635 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:711 — jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:635
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:687 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:2580 — jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:687
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:384 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:452 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:572 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:686 — jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js:384
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.js:3200 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.slim.js:3200 — jquery-3.3.1.js:3200
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.js:498 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.slim.js:498 — jquery-3.3.1.js:498
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.js:10300 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.slim.js:8205 — jquery-3.3.1.js:10300
- AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.js:7713 · AxosnetAPI/Scripts/jquery-3.3.1.slim.js:6920 — jquery-3.3.1.js:7713
What to do
- Extract the duplicated blocks into shared functions/components.
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R2 · Cyclomatic Complexity
- Branch-heavy code is where defects cluster — extract decisions into smaller functions. (×8) — jquery-3.3.1.js:8897, jquery-3.3.1.js:8161, jquery-3.3.1.slim.js:7368, …
What to do
- Break down the listed branch-heavy functions; aim P95 cyclomatic ≤ 5.
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R3 · Large Files
- 5 file(s) over 400 lines
What to do
- Split the oversized components into smaller, focused ones.
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R4 · Test Coverage
- No test imports this module directly or transitively — its behavior is unverified. (×5) — jquery-3.3.1.js, jquery-3.3.1.slim.js, jquery-3.3.1.intellisense.js, …
What to do
- Add tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through their public entry).
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R6 · Tooling
- test ✗ · lint ✗ · typecheck ✗
What to do
- Add the missing tooling (eslint, tsc) as package.json scripts and run them in CI.
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R7 · Dead Code
- 5 file(s) (~25085 LoC) were excluded from dead-code analysis — declare main/module/exports or a conventional entry (src/index.*, an index.html script) so reachability can see this package.
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R8 · Dependency Hygiene
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R9 · Circular Imports
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S1 · Web-Security Posture
- DES / 3DES / RijndaelManaged-bare is deprecated or broken. Use AES-GCM via `Aes.Create()` with explicit key/iv sizes. — EncryptionService.cs:48
- No Content-Security-Policy / X-Frame-Options / X-Content-Type-Options configuration found — defense in depth, even when a reverse proxy could set them. (−2.0 on this card.)
- No UseHttpsRedirection/UseHsts and no reverse-proxy signal — transport security is unverified at the app layer. (−2.0 on this card.)
- No CookieSecurePolicy/HttpOnly/SameSite configuration found. (−1.5 on this card; skip if the app sets no cookies.)
What to do
- Replace DES/3DES (and bare RijndaelManaged) with AES-GCM via `Aes.Create()`.
- Add security response headers (Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options) — defense in depth, even when a reverse proxy could set them.
- Enforce HTTPS at the app layer (UseHttpsRedirection / UseHsts) — only skip this if a reverse proxy demonstrably terminates TLS.
- Set secure cookie flags — CookieSecurePolicy.Always, HttpOnly, and SameSite (Strict/Lax) on auth/session cookies. Skip only if the app sets no cookies.
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X1 · Async correctness
- Blocking on a Task with `.Wait()`/`.GetAwaiter().GetResult()` can deadlock (and wastes a thread). Make the caller `async` and `await` instead. — HelpPageSampleGenerator.cs:308
What to do
- Sync-over-async (deadlock risk)
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X3 · Exception handling
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X4 · Structured logging
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WCAG coverage — what static analysis assessed
| Dimension | WCAG 2.2 A/AA criteria | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| AC1 · Text alternatives | 1.1.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.5 | Partial signal |
| AC2 · Forms & labels | 1.3.1, 3.3.2, 4.1.2 | Partial signal |
| AC3 · Page structure | 1.4.4, 2.2.1, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 3.1.1, 4.1.2 | Partial signal |
| AC6 · Visual & motion safety | 1.4.3, 2.4.7 | Partial — literal CSS only |
| AC7 · A11y enforcement | enforcement — no page criterion | Enforcement posture (process) |
Reference — by lens
| Lens | Score | Rating | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code Health | 33% | Weak — gated by R1, R2, R3, X1 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Architecture | 95% | Exemplary | Strongest area. |
| Maturity | 22% | Critical — gated by M1, M2, M4 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Readiness | 18% | Critical — gated by R4, R6, P1, P2, P3 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Security | 32% | Weak — gated by C1, C2, S1 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Accessibility | 40% | Weak — gated by AC1 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
Not included — 50 check(s) not relevant to this codebase
- AC4 Keyboard semantics — No interactive element found in the parsed markup — AC4 not applicable here.
- AC5 ARIA correctness — No ARIA usage found in the parsed markup — AC5 not applicable here.
- AX1 Captive dependencies — no DI registrations detected
- AX2 Stateful singletons — no singleton implementations detected
- AX7 Slice cohesion — not applicable — not a vertical-slice architecture
- AX8 Test isolation — no test/production split to check
- AX9 CQS / query purity — no CQRS query handlers detected — query purity is not applicable to this codebase
- AXB2 Runtime readiness — no data
- C3 Audit Trail — Repo shows no audit-logging mechanism (IAuditable, an immutable audit log, an EF SaveChanges interceptor) for sensitive changes — absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control. Record an audit trail in code (or document where it lives) so this dimension can be scored.
- C4 Data Retention — Repo shows no data-retention / TTL / cleanup mechanism for personal data — absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control. Define retention periods and a purge/cleanup job (or TTL) in code, or document where retention is enforced, so this dimension can be scored.
- C5 Data-Subject Rights — Repo shows no corroborated data-subject-rights mechanism (erasure / export-portability / consent) tied to a subject id or GDPR vocabulary — absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control. Implement erasure, data export/portability and consent tracking over the subject's records.
- D11 Test Reliability — No tests discovered
- D14 License Compliance — license scan produced no result — the tool ran but its JSON output could not be parsed; the offline NuGet fallback resolved nothing
- D16 Bus Factor — single-maintainer — knowledge-concentration (bus factor) risk
- D20 ADR Quality — N/A — ADRs are expected on deployable products with a user-facing host, not consumed libraries; no ADR log is required here.
- D22 Internal API Consistency — No exposed public API
- D23 Boundary Type-Coupling — At only 5k LoC the codebase is small and single-purpose despite two projects, so explicit boundaries are not needed.
- D25 ADR Conformance — no ADRs to check
- D27 Navigability — symbol resolution incomplete — navigability not assessed
- D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — the solution did not restore on the analyzer's .NET SDK (an SDK/target-framework/restore mismatch, common for an older codebase), so there was no restored dependency graph to scan for NuGet CVEs — excluded rather than scored; re-run on an SDK that can restore this solution
- 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 bin/obj (package.json, package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lockb); no JS dependencies to scan.
- D34 Knowledge Freshness — early-stage repository — too little history to judge knowledge freshness
- D36 Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — No CI/build pipeline found (.github/workflows, .gitlab-ci.yml, azure-pipelines.yml, Jenkinsfile, .circleci); there is no build to attest provenance for.
- D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md, .github/SECURITY.md, docs/SECURITY.md, .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 JS/npm lockfile found outside bin/obj (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lockb); nothing for OSV to scan.
- D39 IL Efficiency — The target did not build, so no IL was available to measure.
- D7 Architectural Integrity — no checkable ADRs and no dependency cycles — architectural integrity not assessed
- D8 Code Coverage — Coverage not measured — test suite did not build
- DM1 Domain Modelling — not run — 0/3 markers found
- ED1 Event-Driven — not run — 0/3 markers found
- ED5 Idempotency — no mutating command handlers or message consumers detected — idempotency check not applicable
- ES1 Event Sourcing — not run — 0/3 markers found
- P12 CI test-gate honesty — no CI workflow found
- P4 Deployment & Rollback — not evidenced — no deploy/rollback/approval signal in the repo; absence of evidence is not evidence of a manual release
- P5 DR & Backup — not evidenced — repo shows no backup/RTO/RPO controls; absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control
- P6 Release Hygiene — not evidenced — no changelog, version stamp or semver release tag in the repo
- P7 Outbound HTTP resilience — no outbound HTTP usage detected
- P9 Domain vs controller coverage — no coverage report found on disk — run tests with `--collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"` (or in CI) to enable this cross-layer check
- 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.
- R11 Import Boundaries — No recognizable feature-sliced/layered src layout — boundary rules not applicable.
- R5 Dependency Freshness — no package-lock.json — dependency freshness not measured (would require an npm lockfile); JS/npm CVEs are scored in D33 (JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities)
- SC1 Supply-chain hygiene — no data
- X2 Cancellation propagation — no async methods found
- X5 Nullable reference types — no NRT-eligible projects
- X6 Hand-rolled structured-format parsing — no data
- X7 Silent fallback defaults — no data
Appendix A — Findings (grouped)
Warning — 16 finding(s)
D10 · Test Quality
- No assertions: Post AxosnetAPI.Tests/Controllers/ValuesControllerTest.cs:45
- No assertions: Put AxosnetAPI.Tests/Controllers/ValuesControllerTest.cs:57
- No assertions: Delete AxosnetAPI.Tests/Controllers/ValuesControllerTest.cs:69
D17 · Explicit Debt
- CommentedOutCode AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/App_Start/HelpPageConfig.cs:42
- CommentedOutCode AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/HelpPageConfigurationExtensions.cs:274
- CommentedOutCode AxosnetAPI/Service/Result.cs:142
D1 · Cyclomatic Complexity
- ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription (cyclomatic 17) AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/ModelDescriptions/ModelDescriptionGenerator.cs:110
D16 · Bus Factor
- single-maintainer — knowledge-concentration (bus factor) risk
D19 · Documentation Quality
- Low XML-doc coverage: AxosnetAPI AxosnetAPI/AxosnetAPI.csproj
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- ModelDescriptionGenerator.GetOrCreateModelDescription (cognitive 25) AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/ModelDescriptions/ModelDescriptionGenerator.cs:110
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- HelpPageConfigurationExtensions.GenerateUriParameters (cognitive 24) AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/HelpPageConfigurationExtensions.cs:254
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- HelpPageSampleGenerator.GetSample (cognitive 19) AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/SampleGeneration/HelpPageSampleGenerator.cs:90
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- ObjectGenerator.GenerateGenericType (cognitive 18) AxosnetAPI/Areas/HelpPage/SampleGeneration/ObjectGenerator.cs:104
D4 · Code Duplication
- Duplicated block (10 lines × 2) AxosnetAPI/Service/EncryptionService.cs:44
D5 · Coupling
- Off the main sequence: AxosnetAPI
D8 · Code Coverage
- Coverage not measured — test suite did not build
Recommendation — 3 finding(s)
D11 · Test Reliability
- No tests discovered
D21 · Naming Consistency
- Typo in type and method name: 'Sesion' is used instead of the correct spelling 'Session'.
D34 · Knowledge Freshness
- early-stage repository — too little history to judge knowledge freshness
Info — 4 finding(s)
D15 · Churn × Complexity Hotspots
- git history depth insufficient
D18 · Solution Shape
- Build did not complete in the analyzer
D22 · Internal API Consistency
- No exposed public API
D35 · Change Coupling
- git history depth insufficient
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 auto --json --quiet --timeout 0 --metrics off . | 0 | — |
| D30 · Dependency Vulnerabilities | dotnet | — | dotnet: not applicable — the solution did not restore on the analyzer's .NET SDK (an SDK/target-framework/restore mismatch, common for an older codebase), so there was no restored dependency graph to scan for NuGet CVEs — excluded rather than scored; re-run on an SDK that can restore this solution | 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 bin/obj (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 — No CI/build pipeline found (.github/workflows, .gitlab-ci.yml, azure-pipelines.yml, Jenkinsfile, .circleci); there is no build to attest provenance for. | 0 | — |
| D37 · Vulnerability-disclosure Policy | disclosure | — | disclosure: not applicable — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md, .github/SECURITY.md, docs/SECURITY.md, .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 JS/npm lockfile found outside bin/obj (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lockb); nothing for OSV to scan. | 0 | — |
Appendix C — Personal-data map
Name — 2 field(s)
- Personal.LastName AxosnetAPI/Entities/Personal.cs:19
- Personal.SecondLastName AxosnetAPI/Entities/Personal.cs:20