Modeling of Object Oriented Software Testing Cost

An effort is made to develop a cost model in this paper for the object oriented software testing process. The software must be tested to an extent so that before releasing it. is assured that the failures risks have been minimized. There is a trade-off between testing cost and release policies. There may be various factors affecting the total software testing cost. In this paper, an object oriented software testing cost model is presented which can be used to determine the optimal release policies for the software. Various software cost factors are considered in this paper such as the cost of object oriented testing and removing detected errors. The error which incurs lot of money and time in the software development process must be included as removal cost which is a stochastic process.

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