95Software Metrics
the popular and widely used software metrics suite available to measure the constructs
is identied from the literature. Finally, a decision on the selection must be made on soft-
ware metrics. The criterion that can be used to select software metrics is that the selected
software metrics must capture all the constructs, be widely used in the literature, easily
understood, fast to compute, and computationally less expensive. The choice of metric
suite heavily depends on the goals of the research. For instance, in quality model pre-
diction, OO metrics proposed by Chidamber and Kemerer (1994) are widely used in the
empirical studies.
In cases where multiple software metrics are used, the attribute reduction techniques
given in ...