Thread: Calculate testing estimation

Test case point (TCP) analysis is an approach for doing an accurate estimation of functional testing projects. The approach emphasizes on key testing factors that determine the complexity of the entire testing cycle and gives a way of translating test creation efforts to test execution efforts. Test case points is a way of representing the efforts involved in testing projects.

Different approach is followed for calculating the tcp in manual testing and automation testing.

TCP analysis uses a 7-step process

1. Identify use cases
2. Identify test cases
3. Determine TCP for test case generation
4. Determine TCP for automation
5. Determine TCP for manual execution
6. Determine TCP for automated execution
7. Determine total TCP test estimation is done by estimating the complexity of the test cases.

The complexity of the test cases falls under three categories: (1) simple (2) medium and (3) complexity. The complexity factors are fixed based on the following categories:
1. The number of steps
2. Interface with other test cases
3. Domain complexity
4. Integration with other devices such
5. Multi-lingual support
6. Interface with external application
7. Data driven
8. Check points
9. Interacting with UI components such as applets etc.,

The timeline for creation and execution of the test cases depends on the time line fixed which contributes towards the test case point analysis.

With this above you can calculate the time line needed for testing a search engine.