Software testing sizing in incremental development: A case study

Authors:
Xiaochun Zhu;Bo Zhou;Lu Chen
Affiliations:
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;State Street Technology Zhejiang, State Street Corporation, USA
Venue:
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The paper presents a case study on software testing sizing of 20 project releases delivered by a technical team through incremental development. Different sizing metrics including KLOC, development effort, test case number and function sizes are reviewed and evaluated. The results show that KLOC doesn't behave well, development effort surprisingly act as a good measure, test case number is an excellent testing sizing method, and existing function size ways are not suitable in our case. In the meanwhile, several sizing evaluation models are proposed during the discussion.