Problem #3: Test Management/Costs

• 1. Testing problems are not only technical issues

• 2. Practical issues: test plans, estimating test costs, hiring qualified test personnel, test stoppage criteria

  • Microsoft: 1 to 1.1 now
  • Microsoft: test code for Windows-NT was 25% as large as is all of the code in Windows-NT
  • Mutual fund project: 50% as large

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