ISO/IEC 9126 standard was developed for addressing software product quality and supporting software product evaluation based on quality characteristics and associated metrics. SEMAT is an initiative developed for re-founding the software engineering by defining theoretical basis, best practices, and a set of widely-agreed elements. ISO/IEC 9126 metrics can be related to the alphas states of the SEMAT kernel. In this paper we relate some ISO/IEC 9126 metrics with some alpha states of the SEMAT kernel. The alphas can be used for assessing the health and progress of a software endeavor. The proposal is focused on the selection of the appropriate metrics for the alphas states in order to verify and validate them.