Test Plan Question:

Analyze product risk.

► What to Analyze
o Threats
o Product vulnerabilities
o Failure modes
o Victim impact
► Ways to Analyze
o Review requirements and specifications.
o Review problem occurrences.
o Interview designers and users.
o Review product against risk heuristics and quality criteria categories.
o Identify general fault/failure patterns.
► Possible Work Products
o Component risk matrices
o Failure mode outline
► Status Check
o Do the designers and users concur with the risk analysis?
o Will you be able to detect all significant kinds of problems, should they occur during testing?
o Do you know where to focus testing effort for maximum effectiveness?
o Can the designers do anything to make important problems easier to detect, or less likely to occur?
o How will you discover if your risk analysis is accurate?