Software Testing Risk Management

Risk Management

The future of the project is fraught with risks. A risk is an indeterminate event or condition that, when it occurs, affects at least one project's objectives, such as scope, schedule, cost, and quality. The risk may have one or more causes, and once it happens, there may be a or multiple impact. The causes of risk include needs, assumptions, constraints, or conditions that may cause negative or positive results.

Project risk management includes various processes such as risk management planning, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning and risk monitoring. The goal of project risk management is to improve the probability and impact of positive events, and to reduce the probability and impact of project negative events. For identified risks, it is necessary to analyze the probability and impact of occurrence, prioritize and prioritize high probability and high impact risk.

Risk Identification

Risk identification is a systematic identification of known and predictable risks in order to take measures in advance to minimize the occurrence of these risks and, most importantly, quantify the degree of uncertainty and the extent to which each risk may cause loss.

1: What types of risk can be categorized?

Recommendation:

1, demand risk, such as frequent changes in demand, lack of effective management of demand change.

2, planning risks, such as the actual size is much larger than the estimated size, the project delivery time ahead but did not adjust the project plan.

3, personnel risk, such as the project more new staff, the backbone of staff instability.

4, environmental risks, such as equipment is not in place in time , new development tools learning time is longer, the environment is not in place in time.

5, product risk, such as new products, new technology, the basic version of the quality is not high.

6, customer risk, such as customer problem confirmation time is too long, the customer can not guarantee input needs assessment.

7, organization and management of risk, such as inefficient project team structure to reduce productivity, lack of necessary norms, resulting in work errors and duplication of work.

8, process risk, such as the early quality assurance activities are not in place, resulting in the late rework workload is too large, the requirements of the program confirmation time is too long.

2: What are the methods of risk identification?

Recommendation:

1. Brainstorming: Organize test team members to identify possible risks;

2, interview: to find internal or external senior experts interview;

3. Risk Check List: Each item of the comparison table is judged, and the risk is checked one by one.

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is the process of analyzing the impact and probability of the identified risks. From experience, many of the risks that ultimately lead to project failures, delays, and customer complaints begin with small, low-risk exposures, which have long been less valued and resolved, and ultimately have a serious impact on project delivery.

Question 1: What are the main tasks of the risk assessment?

Recommendation:

1, the assessment of the various risks faced by the object;

2, assess the risk probability and the possible negative impact;

3, to determine the organization's ability to withstand risks;

4. Determine the priority level of risk mitigation and control;

5, recommend risk mitigation measures.

Question 2: What is the focus of the risk assessment?

Recommendation:

1, the nature of the risk: that the risk occurs when the problem may arise;

2, the scope of the risk: the severity of the risk and its total distribution;

3, the time of the risk: when can feel the risk and how long to maintain the risk.

Risk Response

Risk response is the best test of the management level of project managers , from risk prevention, identification, assessment to response measures and results, can test the overall level of managers. In each project, the risk response is not simply a risk-eliminating process.

Question 1: What are the approaches to risk response?

Recommendation:

1, risk avoidance: Take the initiative to avoid risk, eliminate risk;

2, accept the risk: do not take any action to keep the risk at the existing level;

3, reduce risk: the use of appropriate measures to reduce the risk to an acceptable level;

4, Risk transfer: Pay a certain price, the part or all of the negative impact of a certain risk together with the responsibility to transfer to a third party, to achieve the purpose of hedging the project risk.

Question 2: What are the forms of risk identification and monitoring?

Recommendation:

1. Use risk management forms to track each risk and periodically check the urgency of each risk occurrence;

2, through the morning meeting, daily, weekly, weekly meetings and other forms from within the team to identify new risks, feedback risk management situation;

Collect risk information in the form of communication with customers, superior reporting, etc. to team external evaluation.

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