A metric suite for early estimation of software testing effort using requirement engineering document and its validation

2011 2nd International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT-2011) Pub Date : 2011-11-10 DOI:10.1109/ICCCT.2011.6075150

Ashish Sharma, D. S. Kushwaha

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Software testing is one of the most important and critical activity of software development life cycle which ensures software quality and directly influences the development cost and success of the software. This paper empirically proposes a test metric for the estimation of the software testing effort using IEEE-Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document in order to avoid budget overshoot, schedule escalation etc., at very early stage of software development. Further the effort required to develop or test the software will also depend on the complexity of the proposed software. Therefore the proposed test metric computes the requirement based complexity for yet to be developed software on the basis of SRS document. Later the proposed measure is also compared with other proposals for test effort estimation like code based, cognitive value based and use case based measures. The result obtained validates that the proposed test metric is a comprehensive one and compares well with various other prominent measures. The computation of proposed test effort estimation involves least overhead as compared to others.

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一个度量套件，用于使用需求工程文档及其验证对软件测试工作进行早期估计

软件测试是软件开发生命周期中最重要、最关键的活动之一，是软件质量的保证，直接影响软件的开发成本和成功。为了避免在软件开发的早期阶段预算超支、进度升级等问题，本文根据经验提出了一个使用ieee -软件需求规范(SRS)文档对软件测试工作进行评估的测试度量。此外，开发或测试软件所需的工作量也将取决于所提议软件的复杂性。因此，所提出的测试度量是在SRS文档的基础上计算待开发软件的基于需求的复杂度。稍后，还将建议的度量与其他测试工作估计的建议进行比较，如基于代码的、基于认知值的和基于用例的度量。结果表明，所提出的测试度量是一种综合性的测试度量，并与其他重要度量进行了比较。与其他方法相比，建议的测试工作估计的计算涉及到最少的开销。

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