Unveiling the Art of Software Testing Effort Estimation: An In-Depth Study of Current Techniques and their Analysis

Software development heavily relies on the estimation of the software testing effort. It is, however, very infrequently discussed in the literature. This poses great difficulties in identifying the potential models, parameters, and datasets that should be included in the process of software testing effort estimation. Therefore, the two objectives of the paper are to analyze the existing test effort estimation techniques and identify the parameters that are effective in evaluating this estimation work. In the process, the researchers present a concise literature review of the latest methodologies and the important parameters that were evaluated by the researchers to justify their software testing effort estimation work. The authenticated articles published in the past 10 years are included to present survey outcomes and findings based on a number of inclusion and exclusion criteria. The paper proved to lay the foundation to guide future researchers in conducting research in the field of software testing effort estimation.