what is meant by cyclomatic complexity???

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what is meant by cyclomatic complexity???..

Answer / vinodh anandhan , software tes

Cyclomatic Complexity is a software measurement developed
by Thomas Macabe. It directly measures linearly independent
path of program source code

Cyclomatic Complexity = No of Edges - No of Nodes + 2 *
Number of connected components

or alternative Definition G = Edges - Nodes + 2

or No of closed loops in the flowgraph + 1

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what is meant by cyclomatic complexity???..

Answer / jagadeesh

Cyclometric complexity is a whitebox testing technique
(More useful when doing Unit testing). In this we try to
identify all possible unique program branches (if, while,
forloops etc.) and ensure our test suit is covering these
all possible branches at least once.

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what is meant by cyclomatic complexity???..

Answer / shyam

it is used to measure the complexity of software process& it
is used to measure how many test cases are passed in the
application

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