What is Cyclomatic Complexity?

Question

A term that I see every now and then is \"Cyclomatic Complexity\". Here on SO I saw some Questions about \"how to calculate the CC of Language X\" or \"How do I do Y with th

Answer 1

That's it, the idea is that a method which has a low CC has less forks, looping etc which all make a method more complex. Imagine reviewing 500,000 lines of code, with an analyzer and seeing a couple methods which have oder of magnitude higher CC. This lets you then focus on refactoring those methods for better understanding (It's also common that a high CC has a high bug rate)