[6] ODC as proposed in its original papers have specific attribute-value sets that create measurements on the development process.
There are seven values for defect type and they have been empirically established to provide a measurement of the product through the process through their distribution.
The concept of the trigger is a key contribution that came through ODC and is now fairly widely used in technical and research publications.
[7] The software trigger is defined as the force that surfaced the Fault to create the failure.
Additional information from the defect that is captured in standard ODC implementations includes "impact", "source" and "age".
Thus, the attributes, either singularly, or in conjunction with one of the others provides specific measurements on certain aspects of the engineering process.