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Cyclomatic complexity, how much is too much?


Just wondering, I have installed CodeMaid for Visual Studio and getting code quality stats on a large codebase. i see numbers ranging from 1 to 300 on many of the methods. How much is too much? Can we (or should we) even have a threshold for something like this?


Solution

  • Exact number is team/personal opinion based, but 100+ is definitely way too high.

    Microsoft's recommendation is 25:

    CA1502: Avoid excessive complexity

    The rule reports a violation when the cyclomatic complexity is more than 25.