What to focus on when estimating a software testing task?

[Laycee]

What to focus on? What to Estimate? How to understand how long a Task would take to complete?

[briley]

When you estimate software testing task you should focus on the following:

• Resources: Resources are required to carry out any project tasks. They can be people, equipment, facilities, funding, or anything else capable of definition required for the completion of a project activity.
• Times: Time is the most valuable resource in a project. Every project has a deadline to delivery.
• Human Skills: Human skills mean the knowledge and the experience of the Team members. They affect to your estimation. For example, a team, whose members have low testing skills, will take more time to finish the project than the one which has high testing skills.
• Cost: Cost is the project budget. Generally speaking, it means how much money it takes to finish the project.

[gionna]

List of Software Test Estimation Techniques you can use:

• Work Breakdown Structure
• 3-Point Software Testing Estimation Technique
• Wideband Delphi technique
• Function Point/Testing Point Analysis
• Use – Case Point Method
• Percentage distribution
• Ad-hoc method