How to Assess Risk

This task describes how to assess risk in ALM.

To learn more about assessing risk, see Risk-Based Quality Management Overview.

1. Assess requirements

   1. Display the Risk Assessment tab. In the Requirements module, choose View > Requirement Details. In the requirements tree, under an analysis requirement, select an assessment requirement. Click the Risk Assessment tab. For user interface details, see Risk Assessment Tab.

   2. Determine Risk and Functional Complexity. Click the Assessment Questions tab. The following sub-tabs are displayed: Business Criticality, Failure Probability, and Functional Complexity. In each sub-tab, assign values to the set of criteria. For user interface details on the Assessment Questions tab, see Risk Assessment Tab.

   Instead of assigning values to each set of criteria in the Assessment Questions tab, you can assign custom values directly to each category in the Assessment Results tab. For user interface details on the Assessment Results tab, see Risk Assessment Tab.

   3. For each assessment requirement under the analysis requirement, assign or calculate the Risk and Functional Complexity.

2. Define testing policy settings

   1. In the requirements tree, select the analysis requirement. Click the Risk Analysis tab. For user interface details, see Risk Analysis Tab.

   2. Under Analysis Constants, define the initial settings for testing the analysis requirement and the assessment requirements under it. These settings include how much time to assign to a requirement of a specific Functional Complexity were you to test it fully and how long it would take you to perform partial or basic testing on a requirement. You also decide which level of testing you want to perform on requirements for each Risk and Functional Complexity.

   For user interface details on the Analysis Constants pane, see Risk Analysis Tab.

3. Finalize the testing policy

   1. Calculate the Testing Policy. In the Risk Analysis tab, click the Analyze button to calculate the Testing Level and Testing Time for each assessment requirement under the analysis requirement. The Total required test time, Total allocated testing time, and Total required development time are updated.

      For user interface details on the Risk Analysis tab, see Risk Analysis Tab.

   2. Adjust the Testing Policy. Under Analysis Constants, you can make adjustments to the testing policy to ensure that you have enough time to perform all the testing, and that no resources are wasted.

      For user interface details on the Analysis Constants pane, see Risk Analysis Tab.

   3. Apply results for each assessment requirement. Click the Analysis and Apply to Children button. The analysis is applied to all assessment requirements under the analysis requirement that match the current filter.

4. Analyze the testing strategy

   • To generate a report detailing the testing strategy of the analysis requirement, in the Risk Analysis tab, click the Report button. The Generate Report dialog box opens. For user interface details, see Generate Report Dialog Box.

   • To analyze the testing strategy for an assessment requirement, select an assessment requirement from the requirements tree and click the Risk Assessment tab. The results are displayed in the Assessment Results sub-tab. For user interface details, see Risk Assessment Tab.