Topic: Testing project Estimate

To some extent it does depend on what processes your company has in place but I will give a

few generic guidelines on what happens.

Estimates for testing are usually a subset of estimates for the complete project and may be

negotiable with the Project manager.

To develop estimates
- identify the tasks you will be doing
- you may have to guesstimate the expected number of test cases/scenarios - this is done

based on experience and historical data. Most estimates are required before you will know

this.
- using experience, historical data or a simple set of guidelines identify the estimated

hours for each set of tasks.
- the total for these is the estimate


On some projects you are required to re-estimate at different times when you have more

knowledge and details of the project.