A GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR TEST EFFORT ESTIMATION MODEL SELECTION

Quality plays an important role in software development. Even so, in most software projects testing –as one quality improvement and control technique - is not planned properly and thus requires moretime and resources than initially planned. This shortcoming can only be avoided if planning isthoroughly done and based on realistic assumptions and effort estimations.Several approaches exist for test effort estimation, but all of them have limitations. There’s nosystematic analysis to date that helps to decide if a model, method or framework can be appliedsuccessfully in a certain project. Once this analysis is done, a structured and well-founded selectionprocess can be constructed...