Methods to help you estimate testing efforts
Test effort estimation is one of the more demanding parts of test management, especially when we are dealing with a new game and we don’t have much information about it. Getting to know where to even start can be daunting, and to top this off, there are also numerous different ways and methods of how to estimate your testing efforts. The estimation methods will depend on the following:
- The perceived risk
- The methodology your QA team is using
- The testing team
- The game stage
- The testing focus
- The complexity of game under test
- Code codependencies
- Studio, team, and QA processes
- Budgets
Let’s start with one simple example. One tester works 40 h per week. The average amount of uninterrupted testing per day is 3 intervals of about 90 minutes. The rest of the time goes to setup, reporting, communication, and interruption. That means we have the actual time spent on testing in a week, 15...
