Software Estimation Techniques Project 2022

Running head: SOFTWARE ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES
SOFTWARE ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES
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Introduction
For a successful project of software and also for an appropriate task execution, the techniques
of estimation are known to be playing a greatly important role in the life cycle of the development of
software (Satapathy, Acharya & Rath, 2016). The specific technique which is utilised for the
calculation of the time needed for accomplishing a specific task is known as the techniques of
estimation. For estimating a particular task several effective techniques of software estimation can be
greatly utilised for obtaining a much better estimation. The specific estimate is actually the prediction
or rather an idea which is rough for determining the amount of effort for the completion of the task.
The specific calculation of the techniques of estimation will be greatly based upon the earlier
experience, documents which are available, risks which are calculated and also various assumptions
(Usman et al., 2014).
The main aim of the study is to discuss some of the techniques of software estimation and
also some of the recent options which have been available.
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For a proper risk free procedure of the software test estimation, there are some very basic
prerequisites (Fedotova, Teixeira & Alvelos, 2013). Firstly, it is really very much useful and a good
practice to directly spend some amount of time by recalling all of the earlier projects which may be
posing various kinds of challenges which are quite similar to the recent endeavour at the hand. The
repository tools of the management of test mainly come in handy within various kinds of scenarios as
they will be storing all of the various documents of clarification as well as all of the different
requirements. Such documents can be hugely referred by that of the team of testing for clearly
defining the particular scope of the project (Pandey, 2013). Even the earlier experience of working is
known to be greatly helping a lot for making several assumptions regarding the specific project. This
is actually where hiring all the professionals which are greatly experienced matters the most. The
managers of testing can be picking up all of the brains of such people for the direct delivery of the
results which are desired. The team of testing will be then properly visualising all of the various risks

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as well as threats which are potential which may be lying for the entire team in the nearer future.
There is also a need for the team of testing to properly determine if all of the needs have been either
properly baselined or not. If all of the various documents are not at all baselined then it is really very
much essential to particularly determine the specific frequency of all the various alternations. The
enterprise must be clearly defining all of the various responsibilities as well as roles of all the various
people who will be found to be involved within the procedure of estimation. All of the various
information which will be relevant to that of the procedure of estimation must be properly
documented (Kumari & Pushkar, 2013).
Some of the mostly prominent software test estimation technique will be involving the
estimation of the test point, estimation based upon the work phase and lastly the estimation of the use
case point (Rastogi, Dhankhar & Kakkar, 2014). The estimation of the test point is considered to be
very much simple as well as easy to understand which is greatly utilised across the spectrum of the
software testing. Phases which are iterative as well as simplicity are considered to be the most
essential features of this specific technique. On the other hand, estimation based upon the work phase
is greatly utilised whereby a specific estimate of guess is made upon a specific phase and then the
team of testing will be gradually adding on some other phases into the starting estimation and will be
then finally coming up with a proper estimation (Jayakumar & Abran, 2013). Lastly, the technique of
the use case point estimation is actually a specific estimation upon the various use cases where the
weight of the actor which is unadjusted and the weights of the use case which is unadjusted are
utilised for the determination of the estimation of software testing.
There are several kinds of techniques of software testing estimation which can be greatly
utilised for the estimation of the task. All of these techniques will be involving the Delphi Technique,
WBS or Work Breakdown structure, Method of Functional Point and the Estimation of Three Point.
As per the Delphi technique is considered, this is considered to be one of the broadly utilised
estimation technique of software testing (Bardsiri & Hashemi, 2014). This particular method is known
to be greatly based upon various surveys and it mainly gathers a lot of information from all the
various participants who are actually experts. In this particular technique of estimation, each and