Having a duplication between a field name and a method name is confusing, misleading, and probably an indication that the field name should be updated to be more meaningful.
== Noncompliant Code Example
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public class Foo {
public int sum; // Noncompliant, matching sum() method name
public int sum() {...}
}
== Compliant Solution
public int sumTotal; // Compliant