Cyclomatic Complexity Defined

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Cyclomatic complexity is a code based metric used to measure the number of different paths through a program module. It was introduced and developed by Thomas McCabe in 1976. The primary purpose of cyclomatic complexity is to indicate or quantify the intricacy of a certain program while it is being developed.