Quantifying the dimensions of the software product, to what extent the rate of the product is met.

- Qualitative and quantitative approaches provide the aggregate view of the product.

- Linear continuum need to be supplemented by the identification of the critical programming bugs.

- Consequences that might lead to catastrophic outages need to be properly identified.

- The critical application characteristics measurement involves the structural attribute measurement of the application architecture, coding, in-line documentation.