Section: New Results

Cyclomatic complexity $\ne$ Lines of Code

It has long been believed that cyclomatic complexity of source code correlates linearly with lines of code (SLOC). After extensive study of a large corpus of Java source code, Davy Landman and Jurgen Vinju refuted this belief [34] . This provides a new landmark in how to assess and measure the quality of software. In short: cyclomatic complexity measures something different than lines of code.