Thanks Rob and Edwin for response. It is general topic discussion and there is no significant relevance to open office work related to this topic.
* It might be useful for volunteers if one wants to know how much effort he/she is spending (using any effort technique) while executing tests. Thanks. * On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Edwin Sharp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > How is this relevant to us? > > From the Wikipedia page on test effort it is for cost estimation - > Apache OpenOffice is developed 100% by volunteers. > > It might still make sense, even in a volunteer-led non-profit context. > It is not a "cost" in a commercial sense, but we still need to > coordinate things like translation due dates, estimated beta and > release dates, and so on. We try to line up communications, > interviews with the press, etc., to coincide with milestone dates like > this. So being able to estimate how long a test pass will take is > useful to predicting these dates. > > That said, I'm not sure we do anything very sophisticated here. What > I've seen is mainly counting test cases and estimating how test > cases/hour a volunteer can execute on average. > > -Rob > > > > Edwin > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014, at 12:30, akriti wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> Happy New Year to all..!! > >> > >> I am interested in learning and implementing Test Effort Estimation > >> techniques. > >> Can we discuss about the latest or greatest Effort Estimation techniques > >> here/ > >> > >> It would be nice if OO QA members share their experience. > >> > >> Thanks & Regards, > >> Akriti Jaiswal > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
