Tools to automate calculation of cyclomatic complexity in java?

java cyclomatic-complexity
mjgpy3 picture mjgpy3 · Sep 10, 2012 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

Are there any tools available for Java that can automagically determine the cyclomatic complexity of given Java code? I have sought out tools online, and have yet to find one.

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Domenic D. picture Domenic D. · Sep 10, 2012

I use Sonar (my preferred method). There are plugins to "automagically" generate the report at build time (i.e. ANT/Maven, etc...).

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One other tool I've used in the past is corbetura. You have to have good unit tests though and finding the quantitative analysis for CC is a little tricky.

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