Web Frameworks Excessive Complexity
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 14:32:31 EST 2012
On 20/11/2012 17:41, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote:
>
> Cyclomatic (or conditional) complexity is a metric used to indicate the complexity of a source code. Excessive complexity is something that is beyond recommended
> level of 10 (threshold that points to the fact the source code is too
> complex and refactoring is suggested). Here is a list of web frameworks examined: bottle, cherrypy, circuits,
> django, flask, pyramid, pysi, tornado, turbogears, web.py, web2py and
> wheezy.web.
Cyclomatic complexity tells you nothing that counting lines of code doesn't already.
http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=779
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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