Some of the factors that impact how much test time will be needed relative to development time are: Is the development a green fields project or can the changes potentially affect legacy …

Mar 20, 2013 · For a 6-to-9 month development effort, I demand a absolute minimum of 2 weeks testing time, performed by actual testers (not the development team) who are well-versed in …

Oct 14, 2015 · Since unit-tests capture the debugging, and testing effort into (potentially automate-able) code, it would make sense that more effort goes into them; the actual time …

As the title says, the interviewer said that I should expect to spend 60%/70% of the time writing tests (not just unit). I asked if it was a QA role, but they keep saying it's a regular Software …

Mar 21, 2022 · "Time spent coding" can vary between almost 100% to, as pointed out, about an minute per day. If (for example) a company has "We expect 7 hours time coding per 8 hour …

Mar 13, 2019 · When software developers recognize that doing test-first development has us doing more development and less activities aren’t coding then they tend to get really on board …

Feb 24, 2025 · Most of developers’ time is consumed by operational and background tasks such as CI/CD, devsecops, and writing requirements and test cases. Developers spend more time …

Oct 6, 2008 · What is a typical estimate for coding unit tests given an estimate for coding new functionality? Is this different for estimates to maintain code?

Oct 15, 2019 · Software developers spend 22% of their time just doing code maintenance. They also spend a higher percentage of their time writing new code or improving existing code …

I'd say the time coding vs. the time writing unit tests should be approximately equal. Maybe a little bit more sometimes. Take a look at this article on SO Ratio of time spent on coding versus unit …