Author(s)

Chintala Abhishek, Veginati Pavan Kumar, Harish Vitta, Praveen Ranjan Srivastava

Department of Computer Science and Information System, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India..

In software industry the major problem encountered during project scheduling is in deciding what proportion of the resources has allocated to the testing phase. In general it has been observed that about 40%-50% of the resources need to be allocated to the testing phase. However it is very difficult to predict the exact amount of effort required to be allocated to testing phase. As a result the project planning goes haywire. The project which has not been tested sufficiently can cause huge losses to the organization. This research paper focuses on finding a method which gives a measure of the effort to be spent on the testing phase. This paper provides effort estimates during pre-coding and post-coding phases using neural network to predict more accurately.

Test Effort Estimation, Neural Network, Use Case Points, Halstead Model

C. Abhishek, V. Kumar, H. Vitta and P. Srivastava, "Test Effort Estimation Using Neural Network," Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2010, pp. 331-340. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2010.34038.