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Subject LocaleLevel Senior–Staff~30 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Java that normalizes a protocol keyword before comparison.

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Separate real bugs from style. Rank issues by severity, point at the root cause rather than the symptom, and suggest a concrete fix — specific and kind.

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Code to reviewjava
String normalize(String header) {    return header.toUpperCase();   // compare against "CONTENT-TYPE", "TITLE", etc.} boolean isTitle(String h) {    return normalize(h).equals("TITLE");}
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