Defines how to aggregate the metric values for software metrics (e.g., cyclomatic complexity).

• TOTAL: Sum of all values (default)
• MAXIMUM: Maximum value found in any method or class
• AVERAGE: Average value across all methods or classes

This setting is only applicable for software metrics like cyclomatic complexity, cognitive complexity, and NPath complexity. For coverage metrics (e.g., line coverage), this setting is ignored and the aggregated coverage percentage is always used.