Many software testing tools include a statistic known as the McCabe cyclomatic complexity metric in their reports. The term itself is a bit confusing, as the metric isn't specifically about code ...

Cyclomatic complexity is a quantitative measure of the linearly independent paths in source code that can help you understand the complexity of your program and improve code coverage There are various ...

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There’s a scientific way to compute the lower bound of how many tests on a function are enough. Few people bother to measure anything in the firmware world, which is a shame. For this to be ...

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” Folk wisdom, as ...

One of the areas of embedded software development that engineers seem to struggle with is testing. Engineers often get excited about the design and implementation phases but when it comes to proving ...

Software quality is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only the functional correctness of software systems but also the structural soundness that underpins long‐term maintainability, ...