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<table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><th class="confluenceTh">Language</th><th class="confluenceTh">Notes</th></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">ABAP</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">The following keywords increase the complexity by one: AND, CATCH, CONTINUE, DO, ELSEIF, IF, LOOP, LOOPAT, OR, PROVIDE, SELECT…ENDSELECT, TRY, WHEN, WHILE.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">C/C++</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">The complexity gets incremented by one for: function definitions, while, do while, for, throw statements, return (except if it is the last statement of a function), swtich, case, default, &amp;&amp; operator, || operator, ? ternary operator, catch, break, continue, goto.</td></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd">Cobol</td><td class="confluenceTd">The following commands increase the complexity by one: ALSO, ALTER, AND, DEPENDING, END_OF_PAGE, ENTRY, EOP, EXCEPTION, EXIT, GOBACK, CONTINUE, IF, INVALID, OR, OVERFLOW, SIZE, STOP, TIMES, UNTIL, USE, VARYING, WHEN, EXEC CICS HANDLE, EXEC CICS LINK, EXEC CICS XCTL and EXEC CICS RETURN.</td></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd">Java</td><td class="confluenceTd"><ul><li>Keywords incrementing the complexity: if, for, while, case, catch, throw, return (that is not the last statement of a method), &amp;&amp;, ||, ?</li><li>else, default, and finally keywords do not increment the complexity. On the other hand, a simple method with a switch statement and a huge block of case statements can have a surprisingly high complexity value (still it has the same value when converting a switch block to an equivalent sequence of if statements).Notes:</li><li> <a class="confluence-link" href="#metric_accessors" data-anchor="metric_accessors" data-linked-resource-default-alias="metric_accessors" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">accessors</a> are not considered as <a class="confluence-link" href="#metric_function" data-anchor="metric_function" data-linked-resource-default-alias="metric_function" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">methods</a> and so do not increment the complexity</li></ul> Example: the following method has a complexity of 5<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>public void process(Car myCar){ &lt;- +1
 if(myCar.isNotMine()){ &lt;- +1
 return; &lt;- +1
 }
 car.paint("red");
 car.changeWheel();
 while(car.hasGazol() &amp;&amp; car.getDriver().isNotStressed()){ &lt;- +2
 car.drive();
 }
 return;
}
</pre></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">PL/I</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">The following keywords increase the complexity by one: PROC, PROCEDURE, GOTO, GO TO, RETURN, DO, IF, WHEN, |, !, |=, !=, &amp;, &amp;=.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">PL/SQL</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">The complexity gets incremented by one for: the main PL/SQL anonymous block (not inner ones), create procedure, create trigger, procedure_definition, basic loop statement, when_clause_statement (the “when” of simple_case_statement and searched_case_statement), continue_statement, cursor_for_loop_statement, continue_exit_when_clause (The “WHEN” part of the continue and exit statements), exception_handler (every individual “WHEN”), exit_statement, for_loop_statement, forall_statement, if_statement, elsif_clause, raise_statement, return_statement, while_loop_statement, and_expression (“and” reserved word used within PL/SQL expressions), or_expression (“or” reserved word used within PL/SQL expressions), when_clause_expression (the “when” of simple_case_expression and searched_case_expression)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">VB.NET</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">The complexity gets incremented by one for: method or constructor declaration (Sub, Function), AndAlso, Case, Continue, End, Error, Exit, If, Loop, On Error, GoTo, OrElse, Resume, Return (except if it is the last statement of a function), Stop, Throw, Try.</td></tr></tbody></table>