Table 1 Dataset description.

From: Enhancing software effort estimation with random forest tuning and adaptive decision strategies

Dataset name

Number of projects

No. of attributes

Feature types

Target variable

Domain/source

Citation

China

499

18

Numerical, Categorical

Effort (person-hours)

Various Industries / PROMISE Repository

PROMISE Repository30

Albrecht

24

7

Numerical

Effort (person-months)

IT Projects / PROMISE Repository

COCOMO81

63

17

Numerical, Categorical

Effort (person-months)

NASA / PROMISE Repository

PROMISE Repository30

Desharnais

81

13

Numerical, Categorical

Effort (person-hours)

Canadian Software House / PROMISE Repository

JM1

10,878 (modules)

21

Numerical

Effort (person-hours)

NASA Software Engineering Laboratory / PROMISE Repository