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The success of a software product depends on its functionality and quality compliance. Customer satisfaction, which is vital for an IT organization’s business, is greatly influenced by the quality of the delivered product. Quality is ensured through thorough testing based on accurate test planning. Accurate test planning requires a reliable estimation of the test effort. Our work proposes an innovative method for estimating system test effort for object-oriented systems (OOS) using the highly popular UML Class models. As part of the experimental study, we have presented the test effort estimation steps for a recently completed Web-based project executed in a well-established IT organization. The results obtained confirmed that the proposed approach has the potential to estimate the test effort with reasonable accuracy.
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This work is supported by historical project information provided by Compcerv and a number of test experts employed in prominent IT organizations in India.
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Sahoo, P., Mohanty, J.R. (2020). System Test Effort Estimation Using Class Model: A Case Study. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Mohanty, J., Udgata, S. (eds) Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 159. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9282-5_22
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