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Amland Consulting has been working with Risk-Based testing since 1995
(presented first time at Quality Week in San Francisco 1996). There are many sources explaining Risk-Based Testing. This page includes links to a few of them. Please send me an e-mail with any references you think should be added to this page. I would like to use the following quote from the book "Lessons Learned in Software Testing", by Cem Kaner, James Bach & Bret Pettichord, Wiley, 2001, as an introduction to Risk-Based Testing. "Amland (1999) provides an excellent description of one of these, risk-based test management. Under this view, risk analysis is done in order to determine what things to test next. Testing is prioritized in terms of the probability that some feature of the program will fail and the probable cost of failure, if this feature does fail. The greater the probability of an expensive failure, the more important it is to test that feature as early as possible and as carefully as possible. The other meaning, which is where we are more focused, is on doing risk analyses for the purpose of finding errors. When we study a feature of a product, we ask how it can fail. That question breaks down into many additional questions, such as: What would a failure look like? Why should this feature fail--what drivers of risk are likely to have affected this feature? We describe our approach to risk-based testing in the Addendum on Techniques.” (Hyper-link to James Bach WEB-site at Satisfice.) Other sources with information about Risk-Based testing are: http://www.stickyminds.com
(search for "risk-based")
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