Estimate a test effort and explain its scheduling assumptions.
Instruction: Calculate base and contingency effort, compare capacity with demand and state the dependency that affects elapsed delivery.
Fictional case: for an import-feature release, test design takes 6 person-hours, data/setup 4, functional execution 12, focused exploratory testing 6 and reporting 2. These are additive work estimates without overlap or duplicated activities. Reserve 25% of base effort for retesting and investigation. Two QA engineers each have 6 productive hours per day for three days, giving a shared capacity pool. Design and setup must both finish before execution or exploration; afterwards the work is divisible across engineers, and reporting happens last. The required import build and stable staging environment are available at the start of day two. Assume design and setup can use day one without that environment. Explain whether the plan fits, and distinguish effort arithmetic from a schedule guarantee.
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Base effort is 6 plus 4 plus 12 plus 6 plus 2, or 30 person-hours. A 25% reserve adds 7.5, giving 37.5 person-hours against 36 hours of capacity. The fully reserved plan is short by 1.5 hours, even before considering the environment dependency...
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