To Estimate effort we need to gather following testing aspects

1 Features to focus
Functional Requirement - 1
Functional Requirement - 2
Functional Requirement - 3
Functional Requirement - 4
Non-Functional Requirement - 1
Non-Functional Requirement - 2
2 Types of test to do
Functionality Test
Usability Test
Regression Test
Performance Test and so on
3 Development of Automated Scripts
Lets assume that we shall perform tests manually
4 Effort to design. Document test plan, scenarios / cases
We need to estimate effort for test plan, test design and test documentation.
5 Effort needed to document defects
Let us assume that we may find 80 defects in total.
Estimate effort for validating each requirement
Requirement
1 Functional Requirement - 1 (Description of the requirement)
2 Functional Requirement - 2 (Description of the requirement)
3 Functional Requirement - 3 (Description of the requirement)
4 Functional Requirement - 4 (Description of the requirement)
5 Non-Functional Requirement - 1: Should be highly usable
6 Non-Functional Requirement - 2: Performance
# Critical TS Effort/TS Pmins # High TS Effort/TS Pmins # Medium TS Effort/TS Pmins
30 15 20 15 15 10
25 20 20 15 10 10
15 10 10 10 5 10
8 10 5 10 5 5
5 10 5 10 5 5
10 10 5 5 5 5
# Trivial TS Effort/TS Pmins Effort PH
10 10 16.66666667
10 5 15.83333333
5 5 5.416666667
5 5 3
5 5 2.5
5 5 2.916666667
Estimate test documentation effort (person-hours)
1 Test plan documentation, review & correction (Planning) 8
2 Test scenarios documentation, review & correction (Design) 18
Assuming that it takes 3 hours for each feature
Documentation
Effort
26
Estimate Execution Effort (person-hours)
Let us assume that we have two incremental feature builds and two full builds
QA-C1 Functionality Test (FR1, FR2)
QA-C2 Functionilty Test (FR3, FR4)
Bug Fix Check
Usability
QA-C3 Bug Fix Check
Regression
Performance (If Applicable)
Documentation
QA-C4 Bug Fix Check
Regression
Buffer Time
UAT
Cycle
Bug Fix Check
Total Execution
Effort
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Series1
32.5
32.5
8.416666667
13.91667
3
2.5
3
10.91667
2
2.916666667
3
3
13
2
8
4
4
74.33333
Series1
1
2
Estimate Defect Reporting and Management Effort (person-hours)
Defect Reporting
Let us guess that we may find 80 defects and each defect may take 10 minutes to record
Test Management
Let us assume that it takes 3 hours per cycle
Total Reporting and Management Effort
80*10 / 60 13
3 * 4 12
25
Strategy and
Planning
Design Automation Execution
8 18 0 74.33333333
Total Test Effort
8
18
0
74.33333333
25
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
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Phases
Effort per phase
Reporting and Management
25
125.3333333
Effort per phase
Strategy and Planning
Design
Automation
Execution
Reporting and
Management