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By reducing complexity, we can reduce the number of bugs and defects, along with its lifetime cost. Yet, what exactly is complex code?

Understand what complexity in code really is, its business impacts, and how to improve code quality using metrics like code complexity.

Learn about the cyclomatic complexity metric for code metrics in Visual Studio.

How to reduce cyclomatic complexity? In this post, you'll learn not only that, but also what is this metric and why you should reduce it.

Cyclomatic complexity is one of the most valuable metrics in software engineering. Learn what is is, why it matter and how to measure it.

Calculate mccabe cyclomatic complexity or non-commented line counts for c and c++ programs

McCabe-style complexity and line counting for C and C++

While there are many different cyclomatic complexity tools, a free and open source cyclomatic complexity tool is ....

When looking at a codebase, we shouldn't forget to look at its context, its environment. It can help to measure the complexity of a project.

Do we need to measure complexity? With what metrics? What benefits can it brings? This is the questions we'll answer in this article.

There are many barriers to producing software that is reliable and maintainable over the long term. One of those is software complexity. At the recently concluded 2021 KVM Forum, Paolo Bonzini explored this topic, using QEMU, the open source emulator and virtualizer, as a case study. Drawing on his experience as a maintainer of several QEMU subsystems, he made some concrete suggestions on how to defend against undesirable complexity. Bonzini used QEMU as a running example throughout the talk, hoping to make it easier for future contributors to modify QEMU. However, the lessons he shared are equally applicable to many other projects.