diff --git a/docs/en_us/internal/testing.rst b/docs/en_us/internal/testing.rst
index 4e34692c3b..cab4b4c834 100644
--- a/docs/en_us/internal/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/en_us/internal/testing.rst
@@ -732,6 +732,27 @@ To view JavaScript code style quality run this command.
 
 
 
+Code Complexity Tools
+----------------------
+
+Two tools are available for evaluating complexity of edx-platform code:
+
+- `radon <https://radon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`__ for Python code complexity.
+   * To obtain complexity, run 
+
+::
+
+       paver run_complexity
+
+- `plato <https://github.com/es-analysis/plato>`__ for JavaScript code complexity. Several options are available on the command line; see documentation. 
+    * Below, the following command will produce an html report in a subdirectory called "jscomplexity"
+
+::
+
+       plato -q -x common/static/js/vendor/ -t common -l .jshintrc -r -d jscomplexity common/static/js/
+
+
+
 Testing using queue servers
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c7f7232cb4..62e0affb90 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "jshint": "^2.7.0",
-    "edx-custom-a11y-rules": "edx/edx-custom-a11y-rules"
+    "edx-custom-a11y-rules": "edx/edx-custom-a11y-rules",
+    "plato": "1.2.2"
   }
 }