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Approaches to reduce cyclomatic complexity

I was running our code through JSHint, and decided to switch checks against cyclomatic complexity, and then went on long refactoring sprint. One place though baffled me, here is a code snippet: var ...
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Do iterative methods reduce cyclomatic complexity and improve supportability?

Do iterative methods such as are commonly found in modern languages such as C#, JavaScript, and (hopefully) in Java 8 reduce cyclomatic complexity's impact on understandability and supportability of ...
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Cyclomatic complexity with two IFs - why it is 3?

I have read an article with following example: void func() { if (condition1) a = a + 1; if (condition2) a = a - 1; } It says the CC is 3 as there are three possible paths. How come? Why not 4? I ...
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How is technical debt best measured? What metric(s) are most useful? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I quantify the amount of technical debt that exists in a project? If I wanted to help a customer understand the degree of technical debt in his application, what ...
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Complexity of a web application

I am currently writing my Master's Thesis on maintainability of a web application. I found some methods like the "Maintainability Index" by Coleman et.al. or the "Software Maintainability Index" by ...
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Understanding Cyclomatic Complexity

I've recently come across Cyclomatic Complexity and I'd like to try to understand it better. What are some practical coding examples of the different factors that go into calculating the complexity? ...
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Question about Cyclomatic Complexity

I am new to static analysis of code. My application has a Cyclomatic complexity of 17,754 lines of code. The application itself is only 37,672 lines of code. Is it valid to say that the complexity is ...
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Does it make sense to compute cyclomatic complexity/lines of code ratio?

In general, maintainability index relies on many factors. For example, in Visual Studio, it rely on cyclomatic complexity, depth of inheritance, class coupling and lines of code; those four values ...