SonarQube Blog Cognitive Complexity, Because Testability != Understandability

Thomas J. McCabe introduced Cyclomatic Complexity in 1976 as a way to guide programmers in writing methods that "are both testable and maintainable". At SonarSource, we believe Cyclomatic Complexity works very well for measuring testability, but not for maintainability. That's why we're introducing Cognitive Complexity, which you'll begin seeing in upcoming versions of our language [...]