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 a measure of how complex a unit of software is.It measures the number of different paths a program might follow with conditional logic constructs (If ,while,for,switch & cases etc....). If you will like to learn more about calculating it here is a wonderful youtube video you can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCGomvu-NM

It is important in designing test cases because it reveals the different paths or scenarios a program can take . "To have good testability and maintainability, McCabe recommends that no program module should exceed a cyclomatic complexity of 10"(Marsic,2012, p. 232).

Reference: Marsic., I. (2012, September). Software Engineering. Rutgers University. Retrieved from www.ece.rutgers.edu/~marsic/books/SE/book-SE_marsic.pdf