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Abstract—This paper describes software metrics and provides the relevant matters about the need of software metrics in software development, the basic quality attributes of software metrics and how can we improve the quality of software using software metrics is also mentioned. Quality in fact aids easy and high productivity, which has brought software metrics to the forefront. Currently software metrics are being used by software companies to improve the quality of software so that they can improve their productivity and make profit. This paper also describes the role of software metrics in software engineering. Keywords-Software metrics; software metrics component; software quality factors. I