Although testing effort estimation is a very important task in software project management, it is rarely described in the literature. There are many difficulties in finding any useful methods or tools for this purpose. Solutions to many other problems related to testing effort calculation are published much more often. There is also no research focusing on both testing effort estimation and all related areas of software engineering. To fill this gap, we performed a systematic literature review on both questions. Although our primary objective was to find some tools or implementable metods for test effort estimation, we have quickly discovered many other interesting topics related to the main one. The main contribution of this work is the presentation of the testing effort estimation task in a very wide context, indicating the relations with other research fields. This systematic literature review presents a detailed overview of testing effort estimation task, including challenges and approaches to automating it and the solutions proposed in the literature. It also exhaustively investigates related research topics, classifying publications that can be found in connection to the testing effort according to seven criteria formulated on the basis of our research questions. We present here both synthesis of our finding and the deep analysis of the stated research problems.

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软件测试工作量估计及相关问题

尽管测试工作量估计是软件项目管理中一项非常重要的任务，但很少在文献中描述。为此目的找到任何有用的方法或工具有很多困难。与测试工作量计算相关的许多其他问题的解决方案会更频繁地发布。也没有研究同时关注测试工作量估计和软件工程的所有相关领域。为了填补这一空白，我们对这两个问题进行了系统的文献综述。虽然我们的主要目标是找到一些工具或可实施的方法来估计测试工作量，但我们很快发现了许多其他与主要主题相关的有趣主题。这项工作的主要贡献是在非常广泛的背景下介绍了测试工作量估计任务，表明与其他研究领域的关系。这篇系统的文献综述详细介绍了测试工作量估计任务，包括自动化的挑战和方法以及文献中提出的解决方案。它还详尽地调查了相关的研究主题，根据根据我们的研究问题制定的七个标准对与测试工作相关的出版物进行分类。我们在这里介绍我们的发现的综合和对所述研究问题的深入分析。根据我们的研究问题制定的七项标准，对与测试工作相关的出版物进行分类。我们在这里介绍我们的发现的综合和对所述研究问题的深入分析。根据我们的研究问题制定的七项标准，对与测试工作相关的出版物进行分类。我们在这里介绍我们的发现的综合和对所述研究问题的深入分析。