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Category Archives: Estimation for Testing
Write a Test Strategy – What Choice(s) Do I Have?
Project Manager: “Your test strategy looks good.” Test Lead: “Great. I will get started on the next steps. Do you have the finalized delivery schedule?” Project Manager: “I will send it to you shortly.” … Continue reading
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Why Estimate Testing If You Are Just Given A Box To Work Within?
Sharing an answer to a couple of recent customer queries in hopes that it is generally useful as well: Often in discussing the value of estimating test efforts, a comment is made by someone that there is no point in … Continue reading
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Estimating Test Effort – From Billiard Balls to Electron Clouds
Each of us has very likely had to do an estimate in the past, whether it was for a set of assigned tasks, for a project, or for the budget of an entire organization. As a tester, the question is … Continue reading
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Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness
On May 29, 2008, I presented “Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group, and I wanted to share that material with you. Estimates Provide Visibility to Stakeholders To know how much we will … Continue reading
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Counting On Requirements
How do you know what a system is supposed to do and what it is not supposed to do? Requirements are intended to create an easily validated, maintainable and verifiable document describing a system’s planned functionality. What is lacking in … Continue reading
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Estimating for Testing
Each of us has very likely had to do an estimate in the past, whether it was for a set of assigned tasks, for a project, or for an entire organization. As a tester, the question is commonly presented as, … Continue reading
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