Cyclomatic Complexity is added as a new approach to find methods that are possible failures. It is implemented in the way that McCabe describes it in its original paper on page 7 and 8. The cyclomatic complexity number is computed by counting all if, for and which statements of a method. For every if statement that contains a && 2 is add to the cyclomatic complexity.

Complex

The cyclomatic complexity doesn’t have a maximum value but the likelihood evaluator has to return a value between 0 and 1 including 0 and 1. To have a maximum for converting the cyclomatic complexity between 0 and 1 complexity values bigger than 10 are set to 10. This is the upper bound that McCabe terms in his paper on page 7.

Case statements

McCabe says in his paper on page 9: “The only situation in which this limit has seemed unreasonable is when a large number of independent cases followed a selection function (a large case statement), which was allowed.” To have a “reasonable” upper limit the case statements aren’t count.

Enhancements

To have a complete implementation of the cyclomatic complexity measurement the case statements should also be taken in account, but then it should be possible to configure the upper limit.