'Make Risk-Based Testing a Reality' by Fiona Charles

Fiona Charles has kindly agreed to present a Webinar on 'Making Risk-Based Testing a Reality' on July 23 at 2:00pm GMT

You can register online at http://www.eurostarconferences.com

Many organizations have embraced the concept of risk-based testing as a way to contain the costs of testing and focus test efforts on the system areas where undetected bugs could do the most harm. But too often, there is no substance behind the buzz-phrase, as testers are left to assess the risks without management and business support.

Most testers are not trained to do this, and they may not have the detailed domain knowledge to know the true cost of a defect in the field.

To be an effective strategy, risk-based testing requires both accurate assessment of system risks and stakeholder buy-in.

In this webinar Fiona outlines a process that has worked in many leading organizations for conducting a system risk assessment, asking questions that will help to identify and assess the relative priority of risks, and ensuring stakeholder ownership of the result-which will both drive the test strategy and act as important information for many project decisions.

It is a good introduction to Fiona's tutorial at EuroSTAR 2009, a more intensive interactive session which will focus specifically on identifying and practicing the kinds of questions that elicit business risk.

Key Points

The many dimensions of software risk.

The varied approaches to risk assessment required for different types of software projects.

Sample process for conducting a system risk assesment workshop.

Biography

Fiona Charles teaches organizations to match their software testing to their business risks and opportunities. With thirty years experience in software development and integration projects, she has managed testing and consulted on testing on many projects for clients in retail, banking, financial services, health care, and telecommunications.

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