Test Effort Estimation-Particle Swarm Optimization Based Approach

Test Effort Estimation is an important activity in software development because on the basis of effort cost and time required for testing can be calculated. Various models are available for estimating effort but to some extent all models result in erroneous effort estimation. So there is a need to optimize the effort estimated. Meta heuristic techniques can be used for this purpose, to optimize a problem by iteratively trying to improve a solution, using some computational methods. Particle Swarm Optimization is one such technique which have been incorporated in this work to get good test effort estimates.