Risk Analysis
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Printed Date: 21Jul2025 at 10:48pm
Topic: Risk Analysis
Posted By: Sangita
Subject: Risk Analysis
Date Posted: 19Jun2007 at 9:57pm
A second technique for allocating testing resources is based on the concept
of risk. A risk is anything that threatens the successful achievement
of the projects goals. The principle here is test most heavily those
portions of the system that pose the highest risk to the project to ensure that
the most harmful faults are identified.
Risks are divided into three types: business, technical and project risks.
Project risks are largely managerial and environmental risks, such as an
insufficient supply of qualified personnel, that do not directly affect the
testing process. I will show how both business and technical risks are
applicable to testing software systems.
Business risks correspond to domain related concepts. For example, changes
in IRS reporting regulations would be a risk for an accounting system because
the systems functionality must be altered to conform to the new regulations.
This type of risk is related to the functionality of the program and therefore
to the system level testing.
Technical risks include some implementation concepts. For example, the
quality of code generated by the compiler is a technical risk. This type of
risk is related to the implementation of the program and hence to the component
level testing process.
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