• DocumentCode
    2272120
  • Title

    Software testing sizing in incremental development: A case study

  • Author

    Zhu, Xiaochun ; Zhou, Bo ; Chen, Lu

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Comput. Sci., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    15-16 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    490
  • Lastpage
    493
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    program testing; software metrics; KLOC sizing metric; development effort; function size; incremental development; software testing; test case number; Companies; Computer science; Educational institutions; Life estimation; Paper technology; Size measurement; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software testing; Technology management;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Lake Buena Vista, FL
  • ISSN
    1938-6451
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4842-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1938-6451
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ESEM.2009.5315986
  • Filename
    5315986