Risk Analysis
The test team drives functional risk analysis with the following goals in mind:
• Ensure that the quality risks in the product are understood.
• Ensure that the test team is always focused on the highest return on investment (ROI) activities at any given time.
• Ensure that there is a framework for evaluating any new quality or risk data that comes in as the product evolves and new data arrives.
Risk analysis simply lists the set of all known features and capabilities of the product, and the test team evaluates the absolute inherent risk for each area given its frequency of exposure and likelihood of failure com- bined with the severity of consequences (to the user and the business) should it fail. Then, any mitigations (such as existing test cases, automation, testing via usage, OEM testing, and so on) are deducted from this known risk. All components are then stack-ranked by the net risk, and these