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NDepend dashboard showing Cyclomatic Complexity and Code Coverage metrics for C# code
2026-05-25 · HN #49731413

Understanding Cyclomatic Complexity in C#

Cyclomatic Complexity measures the number of independent execution paths in a method, calculated in C# as 1 plus the count of specific branching constructs. Higher scores indicate code that is harder to read, test, and safely change, making the metric useful for assessing complexity and guiding refactoring.