Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a cycle or cycles.
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- adjective mathematics Used to describe the
number ofedges that must be removed from agraph to ensure that no graphcycle remains; equal to the number ofedges , minus the number ofnodes plus one. - adjective network analysis Used to describe the number of
circuits in anetwork ; equal to the number of edges, minus the number of nodes plus the number of graphs.
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Second, because no matter how much tests you have, cyclomatic complexity will always get you in the most inappropriate times.
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Second, because no matter how much tests you have, cyclomatic complexity will always get you in the most inappropriate times.
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The closest thing that I can think of that comes close to whatever “structural complexity of algorithms” means is cyclomatic complexity, which I never touched on.
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If I add a decision, the cyclomatic complexity value goes up by 1:
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Notice the cyclomatic complexity is at 2 the lowest value possible.
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In this tip we will start out with a simple example of cyclomatic complexity to understand the concept quickly then give some additional information on actual usage and suggested limits.
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At a high level, we determine the value of cyclomatic complexity by counting the number of decisions made in our source code.
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As with many metrics in our industry, there is no exact cyclomatic complexity limit that fits all organizations.
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Essentially, with cyclomatic complexity, higher numbers are "bad" and lower numbers are "good".
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We use cyclomatic complexity to get a sense of how hard any given code may be to test, maintain, or troubleshoot as well as an indication of how likely the code will be to produce errors.
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