complexity management #8
Description
in order to make the program maintainable over time, complexity must be managed.
one such measure of complexity, is cyclomatic complexity, it's not the only one, it's not the best, but still, it's a measure:
here are some data for this project:
can something be done to reduce (or at least avoid the increase) of complexity in the program?
localhost:cppfbp-master b$ ~/scc
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Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks Complexity
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C++ 59 5773 4080 573 1120 624
C Header 41 4747 2674 990 1083 78
C 33 18382 13824 1987 2571 2879
Lua 5 83 42 23 18 9
License 1 201 151 0 50 0
Module-Definition 1 2 2 0 0 0
gitignore 1 39 25 6 8 0
Markdown 1 139 90 0 49 0
MSBuild 1 30 30 0 0 0
C++ Header 1 9 5 3 1 0
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Total 144 29405 20923 3582 4900 3590
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Estimated Cost to Develop $658,037
Estimated Schedule Effort 13.086574 months
Estimated People Required 5.956336
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notice the estimate of 624, this feels a bit high in comparison to other projects.