5.2.3 Product Risk Analysis Flashcards
From a testing perspective, the goal of product risk analysis is to provide an awareness of product risk to focus …
the test effort in a way that minimizes the residual level of product risk.
Ideally, product risk analysis begins …
early in the SDLC.
Product risk analysis consists of:
- risk i…
- risk a…
- identification
- assessment
Risk identification is about generating …
a comprehensive list of risks.
Stakeholders can identify risks by using various … e.g.
- b…
- w…
- i…
- c…
techniques and tools,
- brainstorming
- workshops
- interviews
- cause-effect diagrams.
Risk assessment involves:
- categorization of …
- determining their …
- risk i…
- risk l…
- prior…
- proposing ways …
- identified risks
- risk likelihood
- impact
- level
- prioritizing
- to handle them.
Categorization helps in assigning mitigation actions, because usually risks falling … can be mitigated …
into the same category
using a similar approach.
Risk assessment can use a qual…
qualitative or quantitative approach, or a mix of them.
In the quantitative approach, the risk level is calculated as the …
multiplication of risk likelihood and risk impact.
In the qualitative approach, the risk level can be determined …
using a risk matrix.
Product risk analysis may influence the …
thoroughness and test scope.
Product risk analysis results are used to:
- Determine the test s…
- determine the particular test levels …
- determine the test techniques … and the …
- estimate the test e…
- prioritize testing in an attempt to find c…
- determine whether any activities in addition to … could be …
- scope to be carried out
- and propose test types to be performed
- to be employed
coverage to be achieved - effort required for each task
- critical defects as early as possible
- testing
employed to reduce risk
