Techniques for Calculating Software Product Metrics Threshold Values: A Systematic Mapping Study

Several aspects of software product quality can be assessed and measured using metrics. Without metric threshold values, it is difficult to evaluate different quality. To this end, the interest in research studies that focus on identifying deriving values growing, given advantage applying various projects during their development life cycle phases. The aim paper systematically investigate calculation techniques. In study, electronic databases were searched for relevant papers; 45 publications selected based inclusion/exclusion criteria, questions answered. results demonstrate following important characteristics studies: (a) both empirical theoretical conducted, a majority which depends analysis; (b) papers apply statistical techniques derive object-oriented metrics values; (c) Chidamber Kemerer (CK) studied most papers, are widely used assess systems; (d) there considerable number have not validated terms attributes. From academic practitioner points view, review present catalog body knowledge set new directions, such as conducting mixed quality-related studies, studying an extensive interactions among metrics, more attributes, considering multivariate derivation.