diff --git a/RULES_DESCRIPTIONS.md b/RULES_DESCRIPTIONS.md index 4ef9aefcd..2c21e8081 100644 --- a/RULES_DESCRIPTIONS.md +++ b/RULES_DESCRIPTIONS.md @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ _Configuration_: N/A ## cognitive-complexity -_Description_: [Cognitive complexity](https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/white-papers/cognitive-complexity.html) is a measure of how hard code is to understand. +_Description_: [Cognitive complexity](https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf) is a measure of how hard code is to understand. While cyclomatic complexity is good to measure "testability" of the code, cognitive complexity aims to provide a more precise measure of the difficulty of understanding the code. Enforcing a maximum complexity per function helps to keep code readable and maintainable.