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# Cognitive Complexity

* A measure for how complex your code is to read and understand
  * Testable code != readable code
  * difference from cyclometric complexity (measure of testability)
  * Level of 15 or less is good goal
* The paper
  * <https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf>
* <https://community.sonarsource.com/t/how-to-use-cognitive-complexity/1894/3>

-<http://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-declarative-coding-makes-you-better.html>