Software sizing and estimating: Mk II FPA (Function Point Analysis)
Software sizing and estimating: Mk II FPA (Function Point Analysis)
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Estimation Model for Test Execution Effort
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
An Alternative Approach to Test Effort Estimation Based on Use Cases
ICST '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation
A Simple Approach for Estimation of Execution Effort of Functional Test Cases
ICST '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation
Applying requirement based complexity for the estimation of software development and testing effort
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Software testing is an essential activity of the software development lifecycle. To ensure quality, applicability, and usefulness of a product, development teams must spend considerable time and resources testing, which makes the estimation of the software testing effort, a critical activity. This paper describes a simple process, which we name qEstimation, to estimate the size and effort of the software testing activities. The process incorporates a proposed approach to measuring the size of the test case based on its checkpoints, preconditions and test data, as well as the type of testing. To investigate the practicality of the process, we apply it to estimate the size and effort of two outsourcing testing projects at a software company. In these projects, the estimates produced by the process are more accurate than those estimated by individual testers using their pure experience. This result indicates that our approach can be useful to estimating similar testing projects in practice.