"How do you know how much effort to schedule for integration and test? Once in test, how do you know how much longer it will take? How do you know when you have found all the defects that you can find? When is integration and test really done? Often, integration and test is seen as a black hole. The product enters the phase, but no one seems to know when it will come out."

This article presents approaches to estimate and manage more accurately the integration and test efforts.

Author: Ellen George
Published: Methods & Tools, Fall 2004