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

Cyclomatric complexity is basically a metric to figure out areas of code that needs more attension for the maintainability. It would be basically an input to the refactoring. It definitely gives an indication of code improvement area in terms of avoiding deep nested loop, conditions etc.