In the early stages of a
test project, you can provide
high-level estimates of the time required to complete your test planning
activities and the time or effort required to run all of your tests.
These estimates are often based on what is known about the project
requirements.
About this task
To estimate
the
size of the overall test effort:
Procedure
- Open the
Test Estimation section of a test plan.
- Select
a unit of measurement for the Planning
Effort from the list.
The following units
are available:
- PH: person hours
- PD: person days
- PM: person months
- PY: person years
- Provide an estimate for Planning Effort using
the unit of measurement chosen in the previous step.
- Select a unit of measurement for Execution Effort from
the list.
- Provide an estimate for Execution
Effort using
the unit of measurement chosen previously.
- Click Save to
save the estimate.
What to do next
As the
project develops, individual testers can make more
detailed estimates of the required effort to run individual test cases.