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 Template for deriving effort estimation for testing activity
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Can i have a template for deriving the effort estimation for testing activity?

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ASKED: March 20, 2008  7:16 PM
UPDATED: February 16, 2011  7:46 AM
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Per day cost of Tester = x Days spent on preparing test plan, test cases and actual testing = y Cost of per day usage of testing tools (if any) = a Days testing tools used for the purpose = b Overhead Cost = c Effort estimation for testing activity = (x * y) + (a * b) + c
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Hi!

You can get help at http://www.econcinnity.com. They are offering free estimation service where the experts on the panel will work on your requirements and present with estimation figures (effort and schedule both). Figures will be shared for free but the details of how they arrived at those figures will be charged for. Its an excellent service (especially free portion of it). Atleast, you will be in a position to compare their figures with yours. It will be good for comparison purposes. Register as customer (free) and post your work.

They can ofcourse provide you with detailed report but that will be charged.

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Animeshmehra
 10 pts.
 

Estimate the effort based on the activity.
Identify your tasks and derive a set of activities from each task.
Derive the effort for each activity by consulting with ur team members and identifying pessimistic, optimistic and mostlikely effort.

You can have a template like the following:

Task Activity Milestone Effort required for activity Startdate EndDate Status ..

Test Plan Preparation
Requirements Analysis
Scope Identification
Test Strategy (Test Approach) identification
Resource Requirements
Identify Risks
..
Review & baseline

Test Case Spec
Feature 1
Feature 2
..

Test Environment Setup
Product Deployment
3rd party software installation
..

Test Automation
Feature1
..

Test Prioritization & Execution

Sanity testing
Verify Fixed Defects
Regression testing
Adhoc testing
Trouble-shooting deviations
..
Test Report
Analyse the deviations
Log the deviations
Do Bugscrub
..

QA Certification
Analyse Test Report
Make Decision to certify or not
..

Good luck.

Saimadhu
 455 pts.
 

Hi all,
i want to know what would be the estimation effort template for the applications which are multi impacted and on what basis we can categorised them.

Ji
 10 pts.