International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2278-6252 Vol. 2 | No. 10 | October 2013 www.garph.co.uk IJAREAS | 77 RELEVANCE OF SOFTWARE METRICS FOR A SOFTWARE PROJECT Sunil Dhawan* Neenu Juneja** Abstract: The Central role that software development plays in today’s world is beyond anyone’s imagination. Software development is one of the major areas of focus for any organisations. The managers are increasingly focusing on process improvement in software development area. This demand has led to improved approaches to software development, with the most prominent being object-oriented software design. The focus on process improvement has increased the demand for software measures or metrics with which we can manage the things effectively and efficiently. This research addresses these needs through the development and relevance of metrics that can be used in a project. We have used Metrics developed in previous research, while contributing to the field’s understanding of software design and finding out relevance to the real world tests that can provide us and idea about how relevant the measurement is for design of a software project. An automated data analysis tool was used to compare the relevance of these metrics in different projects. We have taken three projects of Web, Desktop and Mobile nature to ascertain the value proposition of these metrics. Keywords: Software Measurement, Metrics, Relevance, Relation, Performance Measurement, Complexity. *Department of Computer Science, NIMS University, Jaipur, India **Department of Computer Applications, Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran, Mohali, India