Cyclomatic complexity

As explained in Functional Programming in JavaScript

A software metric that counts the number of linearly independent paths through a program’s control flow.

How Functional Programming in JavaScript covers it

How deep it goes

Defines independent execution paths and compares measured values, without deriving the metric calculation.

Examples

Uses the imperative and functional showStudent implementations and their metric comparison.

What you can do after

Evaluate implementations by comparing their control-flow complexity and related static metrics.

How it connects

Connects control flow, conditional statements, code coverage, functional programming, and maintainability.

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Related concepts

• complexitymeasures · Complexity is the degree of difficulty in understanding, analyzing, changing, or operating a system or problem, arising from its structure, behavior, or interacting parts.
• maintainability indexuses · The maintainability index is a composite software metric that estimates how easily code can be understood, modified, and maintained.
• cognitive complexityalternative to · Cognitive complexity is the mental effort required to understand code or a system, particularly as nesting, control-flow breaks, or investigative paths increase.

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