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
Last Wiki Answer Submitted: July 10, 2008 11:18 am by Jaideep Khanduja8,200 pts.
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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
..
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.
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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.
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.