From David Bolton,
Your Guide to C / C++ / C#.
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Definition: A Branch Point is a place in a computer program where a decision is made. It can be a simple true/false decision or a multiple branch decision.

The overall complexity of a program depends upon the number of Branch Points. If there are 10 true/false decisions then in theory there are 2¹⁰ = 1024 different paths through the program. Testing should try to test all possible paths.

In practice, any non trivial application will have many thousands of Branch Points.

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Also Known As: Conditional Branch,if statement,switch statement