Questions tagged [cyclomatic-complexity]
Cyclomatic complexity is a number used to express the complexity of source code (e.g. of a method). It is calculated based on the number of different possible paths through the source code. Low cyclomatic complexity is one factor to improve readability, maintainability, and testability of code.
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PMD Cyclomatic Complexity Causing Problem - Can I Disable?
I'm running a Gradle (Kotlin) build in Java, and overall it's going well. However, the PMD report is set to automatically stop the build if the cyclomatic complexity is 5 or more. This hasn't been too ...
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Cyclomatic complexity of a for loop
I've been introduced to the cyclomatic complexity with two different definitions. First "the cyclomatic complexity is the number of independent paths in the flux diagram of the code" and ...
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How to set cyclomatic complexity limit for specific method?
We have a codebase which is 20 years old running on .NET framework 4.8, and we have a requirement to add a code analyzer to a check for cyclomatic complexity in our source code and fail a build ...
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How can I get the cyclomatic complexity by method of a collection of Javascript files?
I want to programmatically extract the cyclomatic complexity of all methods in a javascript project.
I know eslint can do this, but the project already has an _eslintrc.json defined, and I would like ...
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Build flag added to the configuration and causes pipeline fail
I am using STM32CubeIDE which is based on eclipse.
The problem is that a flag is added and don't know how it was added it is called -fcyclomatic-complexity.
It causes the inclusion of .cyclo files. ...
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Why is the Strategy design pattern applicable when reducing the cyclomatic complexity of the code?
The Strategy Design pattern, from the book Design patterns written by the Gang of Four, has the following statement in the Consequences section:
Strategies eliminate conditional statements. The ...
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Simple spell checker using Levenshtein distance
I have to implement a simple spell checker. Basically I have to user input an incorrect sentence or a word, then a number N, and then N correct words each on new line. The program has to output "...
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what will be the cyclomatic complexity of this c++ code
int x = 99;
int a = 4;
int parity;
while (x < 100)
{
if (a % 2 == 0)
{
parity = 0;
}
else
{
parity = 1;
}
switch (parity)
{
case 0:
cout &...
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Understanding Cyclomatic complexity of a simple condition
I am trying to understand the cyclomatic complexity concept and came across in web that the cyclomatic complexity for below code (pseudo) is 3, but I thought, as there are 4 possible test scenarios, ...
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Cyclomatic Complexity in Intellij
I was working on an assignment today that basically asked us to write a Java program that checks if HTML syntax is valid in a text file. Pretty simple assignment, I did it very quickly, but in doing ...
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Limiting a number without a conditional
Consider the following function:
def absolute_value(some_number):
if some_number < 0:
return -some_number
return some_number
and this one:
def absolute_value(some_number):
...
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Reduce the cyclomatic complexity of a typescript method
Provided is the typescript function, where we need to reduce the cyclometric complexity. I am thinking off to provide the inverted if but that doesn't help much.
updateSort(s: Sort) {
if (s....
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Why aren't switch expressions counted in cyclomatic complexity?
Let's say I have this method:
void DoStuff(int a)
{
int b;
switch (a)
{
case 1:
b = 5;
break;
case 2:
b = 100;
break;
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Calculate cyclomatic complexity from file in different programming language via script
I am working on writing a script that outputs information about my written source code.
So far, I am analysing the code with Python scripts that I have written.
There is a Test.cs class which is used ...
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Should I use cyclomatic complexity in React?
I'm working on a React application using functional components. The lint configuration file has Cyclomatic Complexity enabled. That means that every component or custom hook that has too many logical ...
