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Tool for Assessment of Testing Effort

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Engineering in Dependability of Computer Systems and Networks (DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2019)

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Testing, being one of crucial factors in providing high quality software, needs a significant amount of resources of the whole project. Estimation of amount of expenditures required to test the software, called testing effort, would considerably facilitate the project management process. Early estimation of the test effort, e.g. during design process, can significantly facilitate project management and resources distribution optimization. We made an attempt to prepare such an estimate. The tool estimating time necessary to test the system, on the basis of its UML model, called IoTEAM, was designed and developed. The tool is based on two methods: mapping UML class and sequence diagrams into the results of Function Point Analysis and Test Point Analysis. The choice of those methods was preceded by a comprehensive study of the current state of art. Some results of this study are presented in this paper. The usage of IoTEAM is also described.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Ilona Bluemke & Agnieszka Malanowska

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  1. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Wojciech Zamojski

  2. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jacek Mazurkiewicz

  3. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jarosław Sugier

  4. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Tomasz Walkowiak

  5. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Bluemke, I., Malanowska, A. (2020). Tool for Assessment of Testing Effort. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Engineering in Dependability of Computer Systems and Networks. DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19501-4_7

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