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2008 International Conference on Cyberworlds
Estimate Test Execution Effort at an Early Stage: An Empirical Study
September 22-September 24
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3381-0
Software testing is becoming more and more important as it is a widely used activity to ensure software quality. Test execution becomes an activity in the critical path of a project. In this case, early estimation of test execution effort can benefit both tester managers and software projects. This paper reports an empirical study on early test execution effort estimation. In the study, we propose an approach which mainly consists of two parts: test case number prediction from use cases and test effort estimation based on the test suite execution vector model which combines test case number, test execution complexity and its tester together. For each part, we evaluate it with the data of real projects from a financial software company.
Index Terms:
Use Case Verification Point, Test Execution Complexity, Test Suite Execution Vector
Citation:
Xiaochun Zhu, Bo Zhou, Fan Wang, Yi Qu, Lu Chen, "Estimate Test Execution Effort at an Early Stage: An Empirical Study," cw, pp.195-200, 2008 International Conference on Cyberworlds, 2008
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