cyclomatic complexity

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cyclomatic complexity (countable and uncountable, plural cyclomatic complexities)

  1. (software engineering) A quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths (branches) through a program's source code which indicates the complexity of a program or a function.
    Synonym: McCabe's complexity
    • 2006, Linda M. Laird, M. Carol Brennan, Software Measurement and Estimation: A Practical Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 61:
      Cyclomatic complexity to us seems to be more of a problem when maintaining and testing code, rather than when originally writing it. As the cyclomatic complexity increases, the difficulty of fixing the code increases.

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