Programming: Code Complexity Metrics

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Metrics to help you identify parts of your codebase that might be difficult to modify.
Also known as Programming Complexity.

Documentation

wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_complexity

SLOC (source lines of code)

Literally, the number of lines of code in your application.

Cyclomatic Complexity

Maps the tree of all possible permutations of conditionals in your code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity 

# where a connected-component is a separate system (ex. library call)
edges - nodes + (2 * connected-components)

1-10: simple
11-20: complex
20-50: highly complex
50+:   impossibly complex

ABC (Assignments, Branches, Conditions)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Software_Metric

Essentially, add 1 point for every assignment, conditional, and function call.

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