In this paper we identify key attributes of projects in which the number of
problem reports after release is remarkable in the communication
software. After several interviews to software project managers, we
derived candidate attributes of importance to the projects. To find
out the most influential attributes of the projects, we conducted
statistical analysis using a set of metrics data related to the
candidate attributes and the number of problem reports after
release. As a result, we successfully found that two metrics
concerning the origin's quality and the changes in specification are
useful to estimate the field quality.