Research Article

Cost-Sensitive Radial Basis Function Neural Network Classifier for Software Defect Prediction

Table 2

Attribute information of the datasets.

NumberAttribute typeQuality metricsAttribute definition

1McCabe’s measurelocLine count of code
2Cyclomatic complexity
3Essential complexity
4Design complexity

5Basic Halstead measuresloCodeLine count
6loCommentCount of lines of comments
7loBlankCount of blank lines
8loCodeAndCommentCount of code and comment lines
9uniqOpUnique operators
10uniqOpndUnique operands
11total_OpTotal operators
12total_OpndTotal operands
13branchCountBranch count of the flow graphs

14Derived Halstead measuresTotal operators + operands
15Volume
16Program length
17Difficulty
18Intelligence
19Effort
20Estimate of the effort
21Time estimator

22Output defect measureDefectsfalse, true: module has/does not have one or more reported defects