Software testing sizing in incremental development: A case study

The paper presents a case study on software testing sizing of 20 project releases delivered by a technical team through incremental development. Different sizing metrics including KLOC, development effort, test case number and function sizes are reviewed and evaluated. The results show that KLOC doe...

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Main Authors: Xiaochun Zhu, Bo Zhou, Lu Chen
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Companies
Computer science
Educational institutions
Life estimation
Paper technology
Size measurement
Software engineering
Software measurement
Software testing
Technology management
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Summary:The paper presents a case study on software testing sizing of 20 project releases delivered by a technical team through incremental development. Different sizing metrics including KLOC, development effort, test case number and function sizes are reviewed and evaluated. The results show that KLOC doesn't behave well, development effort surprisingly act as a good measure, test case number is an excellent testing sizing method, and existing function size ways are not suitable in our case. In the meanwhile, several sizing evaluation models are proposed during the discussion.
ISSN:1949-3770
1949-3789
DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2009.5315986