Table of Contents

MonkeyProof MATLAB Coding Standard++

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Naming conventions
  • Name length
  • Loop iterator naming
  • Negated boolean names
  • Parent / child name redundancy
  • Variable casing
  • Function casing
  • Class casing
  • Property casing
  • Package casing
  • Event casing
  • Struct field casing
  • Constant casing
  • Enumeration member casing
  • Name shadowing
  • Names to avoid
  • Name-value pair casing
  • Test suffix
  • Name class object
• Layout & comments
  • Comment blocks
  • Function indentation
  • Whitespace in statements
  • Whitespace after characters
  • Line length
  • Indentation length
  • Comments on poorly written code
  • Equals sign alignment
  • Commas in rows
  • Line continuation with operators
  • Methods/Properties blocks with duplicate attributes
  • Whitespace at the end of a line
  • Use spaces instead of tab characters.
  • Properties blocks before methods blocks
• Statements & expressions
  • Constant definitions at top
  • Magic numbers
  • Function calls without inputs
  • One statement per line
  • If else
  • Switch otherwise
  • Mixed types in expressions
  • Parentheses in logical expressions
  • Parentheses in mathematical expressions
  • Assert inputs
  • Global variables
  • Constant conditional statements
  • Group struct field definitions
  • Return keyword
  • Dependencies known
  • Try for exception handling
  • Floating-point comparisons
  • Cell arrays
  • Zero before decimal point
  • Abstract class instantiation
  • Command syntax
• Higher level rules
  • Complexity
  • Number of function arguments
  • Constructors with single output
  • Scripts
  • Editor warnings
  • Getters and setters
  • Mex-files
  • Nesting depth
  • Reuse of iterator variables
  • Nested functions
  • Missing methods declarations and implementations
  • Mismatch input and output declarations and implementations
  • First output constructor
  • Iterator variables outside loop
  • More input arguments than expected
  • Superclass property implementation
  • Java dependency
  • Method access permissions
  • Write interpretable code
• Security
  • Eval-functions
  • Shell escape
  • Security weboptions
  • Security XML reading
  • Constant variable names
  • Security Username and Password