diff --git a/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/alerts_specification_schema.py b/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/alerts_specification_schema.py
index 6f6b1e03b947bfa0f360bc3f3e8cee14decc07f2..6faa5175bedd129beeca506b0289e96c5c9e6e63 100644
--- a/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/alerts_specification_schema.py
+++ b/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/alerts_specification_schema.py
@@ -23,22 +23,22 @@
 """
 
 # Python standard libs
-from re import compile, IGNORECASE
+import re
 
 # PIP installed libs
 from schema import Schema, And, Or, Optional, SchemaError
 
-"""
-This module defines the schema objects for the TOSCA Alert Specification:
-
-        * flame_clmc_alerts_definitions.yaml must be the only import
-        * metadata section must be present (with key-value pairs for sfc and sfci)
-        * policies section must be present (under the topology_template node)
-        * each policy must be associated with a triggers node (containing at least 1 trigger)
-        * each policy is of type eu.ict-flame.policies.StateChange or eu.ict-flame.policies.Alert
-        * each trigger must specify event_type, metric, condition, and at least one handler in action/implementation
-        * the condition section must specify threshold, granularity, aggregation_method, comparison_operator
-"""
+
+# This module defines the schema objects for the TOSCA Alert Specification:
+#
+#         * flame_clmc_alerts_definitions.yaml must be the only import
+#         * metadata section must be present (with key-value pairs for sfc and sfci)
+#         * policies section must be present (under the topology_template node)
+#         * each policy must be associated with a triggers node (containing at least 1 trigger)
+#         * each policy is of type eu.ict-flame.policies.StateChange or eu.ict-flame.policies.Alert
+#         * each trigger must specify event_type, metric, condition, and at least one handler in action/implementation
+#         * the condition section must specify threshold, granularity, aggregation_method, comparison_operator
+
 
 # Influx QL functions defined in the documentation https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.6/query_language/functions/
 INFLUX_QL_FUNCTIONS = (
@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ TICK_SCRIPT_TEMPLATES = ("threshold", "relative", "deadman")
 COMPARISON_OPERATORS = {"lt": "<", "gt": ">", "lte": "<=", "gte": ">=", "eq": "=", "neq": "<>"}
 
 # Regular expression for validating http handlers
-URL_REGEX = compile(
+URL_REGEX = re.compile(
     r'^https?://'  # http:// or https://
     r'(?:(?:[A-Z0-9](?:[A-Z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2,6}\.?|[A-Z0-9-]{2,}\.?)|'  # domain, e.g. example.domain.com
     r'localhost|'  # or localhost...
     r'\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})'  # or IP address (IPv4 format)
     r'(?::\d{2,5})?'  # optional port number
     r'(?:[/?#][^\s]*)?$',  # URL path or query parameters
-    IGNORECASE)
+    re.IGNORECASE)
 
 # Global tags allowed to be used for filtering in the trigger condition
 CLMC_INFORMATION_MODEL_GLOBAL_TAGS = {"flame_sfc", "flame_sfci", "flame_sfp", "flame_sf", "flame_sfe", "flame_server", "flame_location"}
@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ def validate_clmc_alerts_specification(tosca_yaml_tpl, include_error=False):
     try:
         ALERTS_SPECIFICATION_SCHEMA.validate(tosca_yaml_tpl)
         valid, err = True, None
-    except SchemaError as e:
-        valid, err = False, e
+    except SchemaError as schema_error:
+        valid, err = False, schema_error
 
     if include_error:
         return valid, err
-    else:
-        return valid
+
+    return valid
diff --git a/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/views.py b/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/views.py
index 34490678d30774d4fee6ea445257d59113b7633c..44183f1b40c300daaaea6bbf744675d9edd6f55e 100644
--- a/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/views.py
+++ b/src/service/clmcservice/alertsapi/views.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from requests import post
 
 # CLMC-service imports
 from clmcservice.alertsapi.utilities import adjust_tosca_definitions_import, TICKScriptTemplateFiller, fill_http_post_handler_vars, get_resource_spec_topic_ids, get_alert_spec_topic_ids
-from clmcservice.alertsapi.alerts_specification_schema import COMPARISON_OPERATORS,  validate_clmc_alerts_specification
+from clmcservice.alertsapi.alerts_specification_schema import COMPARISON_OPERATORS, validate_clmc_alerts_specification
 
 # initialise logger
 log = logging.getLogger('service_logger')
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ class AlertsConfigurationAPI(object):
 
     @view_config(route_name='alerts_configuration', request_method='GET')
     def get_alerts_hash(self):
+        """
+        Retrieves hash value for alerts task, topic and handlers based on sfc, sfci, policy and trigger IDs
+        """
 
         for param in ("sfc", "sfci", "policy", "trigger"):
             if param not in self.request.params: