Software Testing Effort Estimation Bottoms-Up Article

There is a decent article on manually decomposing testing and estimating bottoms up.

While it would be much more accurate to use SEER for estimating testing the article provides  a decent approach if you don’t have estimation software.  Of course, estimating without estimating software has been called one of the deadly sins of software estimating by Steve McConnell.

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One Response to “Software Testing Effort Estimation Bottoms-Up Article”

1. sakthi on July 6th, 2009 2:22 am

   Hi great Article on “manually decomposing testing and estimating bottoms up” All the concepts of Test Estimation are so clear and easy to understand as it is explained with a nice Example. I had found another Article on the same topic in macrotesting http://www.macrotesting.com as you linked onestoptesting there also i found so many useful ideas and your article is so interesting and i really enjoyed reading the Article. Thank you….

   Cheers
   sakthi…….

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