Do you find cyclomatic complexity a useful measure?

Question

I\'ve been playing around with measuring the cyclomatic complexity of a big code base.

Cyclomatic complexity is the number of linearly independent paths through a pr

Answer 1

Actually, cyclomatic complexity can be put to use beyond just method level thresholds. For starters, one big method with high complexity may be broken into several small methods with lower complexity. But has it really improved the codebase? Granted, you may get somewhat better readability by all those method names. But the total conditional logic hasn't changed. And the total conditional logic can often be reduced by replacing conditionals with polymorphism.

We need a metric that doesn't turn green by mere method decomposition. I call this CC100.

CC100 = 100 * (Total cyclomatic complexity of codebase) / (Total lines of code)