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Software Test Estimation

Course:  STEST
Duration:  2 Days
Level:  I
Course Summary

This course uses hands on labs to guide the student through the many questions of test estimation. It will help the student decide whether to use risk to determine what should be tested and what tasks should be completed before those tests can be performed. It will also show what techniques can be combined like work-breakdown-structures, historical project data, and rules of thumb to estimate the time and money required for those tasks. The student will also be taught how to respond to management requests to compress testing efforts into pre-existing schedules or budget targets.

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Topics Covered In This Course

Introduction

Deciding What to Test

  • Quality
  • Quality and customer usage
  • Quality risk analysis

Workshop: Quality Risk Analysis

Estimating What Can Be Tested: Fundamentals

  • Work-breakdown-structures
  • Deliverables
  • Dependencies and resources

Estimating What Can Be Tested: Important Considerations

  • Test execution time
  • Bug removal time
  • People, process, and materials factors

Estimating What Can Be Tested: Refinements

  • Historical-data framework
  • Industry averages
  • Developer/tester and project effort ratios
  • Test point analysis
  • Uses and misuses of these techniques
  • Sticky-note work-breakdown-structure technique

Workshop: Developing an Estimate

Selling the Estimate

  • Cost of quality?and poor quality
  • The value of known bugs
  • Testing as an insurance substitute
  • Test information as a project guide

Workshop: Presenting and Defending a Budget

Workshop: Calculating Costs of Failure

Adapting to Project Constraints

  • Overlap phases
  • Add staff
  • Reduce test execution time
  • Use risk as a guide
  • Drop features
  • The risks of overtime and stretch goals

Workshop: Risk-Driven Reductions in Test Project Scope

What You Can Expect

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Analyze risks to system quality to determine what should be tested in a test project and to what degree.
  • Use work-breakdown-structures to create a usable, realistic estimate of the tasks, dependencies, resources, and time required for a testing project.
  • Refine estimates using developer/tester ratios, industry averages, historical data, and test point analysis.
  • Demonstrate to management how the estimate involves risk-management basis, experience, and practical formulas.
Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for anyone who needs to develop and understand software test estimating.

Recommended Prerequisites

Some exposure to software applications.

Training Style

Instructor led with 50% lecture and 50% lab.

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