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Applying Mccabe's complexity measure to multiple‐exit programs
Author(s) -
Harrison Warren A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380141009
Subject(s) - metric (unit) , measure (data warehouse) , computer science , mathematics , operations management , data mining , engineering
The traditional short‐cut calculation for McCabe's complexity metric, π+1, does not handle the case of multiple‐exit flowgraphs. An alternative short‐cut calculation is presented that allows the metric to be applied to multiple‐exit programs.