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

I haven't used it in a while, but on a previous project it really helped identify potential trouble spots in someone elses code (wouldn't be mine of course!)

Upon finding the area's to check out, i quickly found numerious problems (also lots of GOTOS would you believe!) with logic and some really strange WTF code.

Cyclomatic complexity is great for showing areas which probably are doing to much and therefore breaking the single responsibilty prinicpal. These's ideally should be broken up into mulitple functions