Session: Estimate Testing Size and Effort Using Test Case Point Analysis

Quality Assurance Management is an essential component 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 white paper proposes an approach, namely Test Case Point Analysis, to estimating the size and effort of software testing work. The approach measures the size of a software test case based on its checkpoints, preconditions and test data, as well as the types of testing. The testing effort is computed using the Test Case Point count of the testing activities.

Main Message:

• Why it is essential to estimate testing size and effort
• A survey of available methods used in estimating the size and effort of software testing projects
• What Test Case Point Analysis is and how it works
• How to apply Test Case Point Analysis to size/effort and distribution of software testing activities