S138 — Procedures should not have too many lines of code

Language
VB.NET
Type
Code smell
Severity
Major
Tags
brain-overload

Why is this an issue?

A procedure that grows too large tends to aggregate too many responsibilities.

Such procedures inevitably become harder to understand and therefore harder to maintain.

Above a specific threshold, it is strongly advised to refactor into smaller procedures which focus on well-defined tasks.

Those smaller procedures will not only be easier to understand but also probably easier to test.

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