Risk Based Testing – Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2
Rex Black
RBCS
This eBook is an excerpt from Rex Black’s book, Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2. It consists of the section concerning risk-based testing and how risk-based testing responds to risks including identifying those risks, executing a risk analysis, mitigating risks, monitoring the impact of a risk-based test strategy and analysing and reporting on test results.
Material covered in this PDF download:
- Risk-Based Testing & Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Characteristics & Benefits of Risk-Based Testing
- The History of Risk-Based Testing
- How to do Risk-Based Testing
- The Level of Risk
- Controlling the Risk
- Project Risk
- Risk Identification and Assessment Techniques
- Categories of Quality Risks
- Documenting Quality Risks
- Quality Risk Analysis Using ISO 9126
- Priortising Risks
- Risk Based Testing and the Testing Process
- Risk Based Testing Through the Lifecycle
Extract
“When you adopt risk-based testing, there are a number of challenges you’ll need to surmount. Many of these are most acute during the test planning activities, but they can — and do — persist throughout the test process. Let me review some of the key challenges and offer some ideas on surmounting them.
The first of these challenges tends to arise during risk analysis. As a test manager leading a quality risk analysis effort, I often have found it difficult to build agreement and consensus on the level of risk associated with one or more risk item. Some will say likelihood is high, some will say it is low. Some will say impact is high, some will say it is low. This can create a deadlock in finalizing the quality risk analysis and reduce the benefits of risk-based testing for the rest of the test process because the overall priority — and thus the effort, sequencing, and potential triage priority—remains in doubt. There are various ways to try to resolve these disagreements. “
About Me!
With thirty years of software and systems engineering experience, Rex Black is President of RBCS (www.rbcs-us.com), a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. For almost twenty years, RBCS has delivered consulting, outsourcing and training services in the areas of software, hardware, and systems testing and quality. Employing the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups, and provides testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. Ranging from Fortune 20 companies to start-ups, RBCS clients save time and money through higher quality, improved product development, decreased tech support calls, improved reputation, and more. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. His popular first book, Managing the Testing Process, has sold over 50,000 copies around the world, including Japanese, Chinese, and Indian releases, and is now in its third edition. His ten other books on testing, Advanced Software Testing: Volumes I, II, and III, Critical Testing Processes, Foundations of Software Testing, Pragmatic Software Testing, Fundamentos de Pruebas de Software, Testing Metrics, Improving the Testing Process, and Improving the Software Process have also sold tens of thousands of copies, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indian, and Russian editions. He has written over forty articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops, and seminars, and given about fifty keynotes and other speeches at conferences and events around the world. Rex is the past President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board and of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board.