Cyclomatic Complexity: theme and variations

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/429/389">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/429/389">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Cyclomatic Complexity: theme and variations</h1> <h2><i>Brian Henderson-Sellers, Yagna Raj Pant, June M. Vemer</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>Focussing on the "McCabe family" of measures for the decision/logic structure of a program, leads to an evaluation of extensions to modularization, nesting and, potentially, to object-oriented program structures. A comparison of rated, operating and essential complexities of programs suggests two new metrics: 'inessential complexity" as a measure of unstructuredness and "product complexity" as a potential objective measure of structural complexity. Finally, nesting and abstraction levels are considered, especially as to how metrics from the "McCabe family" might be applied in an object-oriented systems development environment.</div> </body>