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Topic: Test Effort
Posted By: vidhya
Subject: Test Effort
Date Posted: 26Mar2007 at 5:18am
Test Effort

The test effort shows the expenses for (still to come) tests. There is a relation with test costs and failure costs (direct, indirect, costs for fault correction). Some factors which influence test effort are: maturity of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Development_Process - software development process , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality - quality and testability of the testobject, test infrastructure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skills - skills of staff members, quality goals an
d test strategy.

Methods for estimation of the test effort

To analyse all factors is difficult, because most of the factors influence each other. Following approaches can be used for the estimation: top-down estimation and bottom-up estimation. The top-down techniques are formula based and they are relative to the expenses for development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_point_analysis - Function Point Analysis (FPA) and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Test_Point_Analysis&action=edit - Test Point Analysis (TPA) amongst others. Bottom-up techiques are based on detailed information and involve often experts. The following techniques belong here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Breakdown_Structure - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Wide Band http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_technique - Delphi (WBD).

 




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