Risk Analysis Tab

This tab enables you to define the testing policy settings and to determine the total estimated testing time for the analysis requirement and the assessment requirements under it.

To access

Use one of the following:

  • In the Requirements module, select the Requirement Details view. Select an analysis requirement and click the Risk Analysis tab.

  • In the Requirements module, right-click an analysis requirement and select Requirement Details. The Requirement Details dialog box opens. Click the Risk Analysis button.
Important information

  • Make sure that you have determined the Risk and Functional Complexity categories of all assessment requirements that are located under the analysis requirement for which you want to finalize the testing policy, and that you want to include in the risk analysis. For details, see Risk Assessment Tab.

  • You can filter the requirements tree to include only the assessment requirements you want to include in the risk analysis. For more details on filtering, see Filter Dialog Box.

  • You can customize each requirement type for risk-based quality management. For details, see Customize requirement types.

  • You can customize the testing policy used by default. For details, see Customize risk-based quality management.
Relevant tasks

How to Assess Risk

See also

Risk Assessment Tab

Risk-Based Quality Management Overview

This tab enables you to calculate the total estimated testing time for the analysis requirement and the assessment requirements under it. The calculation is based on the testing policy defined in the Analysis Constants pane.

Important information

  • If you do not want to use the default Testing Effort and Testing Level values when calculating the testing policy in this main area, make sure that you have defined custom values in the Analysis Constants pane.

  • After calculating the testing policy in this main area, compare the total calculated testing time with the resources you have available. If the resources you have available are not sufficient to test the requirement according to the current settings, you can change the settings in the Analysis Constants pane, and perform the calculation again.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element

Description

Calculates the Testing Level and Testing Time for each assessment requirement under the analysis requirement that matches the current filter.

This calculation is based on the assessment requirements' Risk Category, Testing Level, and Testing Time values you defined for the analysis requirement.

Propagates the analysis results to all assessment requirements under the analysis requirement that match the current filter.

Opens the Generate Report dialog box. For details, see Generate Report Dialog Box.
Last analyzed on

The date on which the risk analysis was last performed.
Filter

Determines which requirements were included in the risk analysis. For more details on filtering, see Filter Dialog Box.
Scope

The number of requirements included in the risk analysis. Also provides a breakdown of which requirements were assessed, which were missing assessment, and which were not assessable.

To display a list of requirements not included in the analysis, click the missing assessment or not assessable links. The Drill Down Results dialog box opens and displays a grid with a list of requirements in the category. For details, see .

Tip: The missing assessment link displays the requirements for which you did not determine a category or which you excluded explicitly from the analysis. Verify that there are no requirements that should be assigned a category. If you do not want to include a requirement in the analysis, then exclude it from the analysis explicitly.
Total required testing time

Displays the total calculated time required to test all the assessment requirements under the analysis requirement matching the current filter and included in the risk analysis.
Total allocated testing time

The total time allocated to test the requirements included in the risk analysis.
Total required development time

Displays the total time required to develop all the assessment requirements under the analysis requirement, based on the required development time you optionally estimated for each assessment requirement.
No. of Requirements

Displays the number of sub-requirements of the analysis requirement of each Risk Category.

To display a list of requirements included in the analysis, click a segment in the graph. The Drill Down Results dialog box opens and displays a grid with a list of requirements in the category. For details, see .
Total Testing Time

Displays the total calculated testing time required to test all the requirements of each Risk Category.

To display a list of requirements included in the analysis, click a segment in the graph. The Drill Down Results dialog box opens and displays a grid with a list of requirements in the category. For details, see .
Functional Complexity

A legend of the Functional Complexity values displayed in the graphs.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element

Description

Show/Hide. Shows/hides the Analysis Constants pane.

Opens the Risk-Based Quality Management Constants Defaults dialog box, enabling you to view the default constants in use.

Assigns default values to the constants used for the current requirement.

Testing Time (full) per Functional Complexity

The time needed to fully test a requirement with that Functional Complexity. For each Functional Complexity value, type the estimated testing time.

Example: A requirement with a high Functional Complexity generally requires more testing time as it is more likely that the requirement's implementation contains defects.

Testing Level (Full = 100%, None = 0%)

Defines how much Testing Time is required for a requirement as a percentage of full testing.

In the Partial and Basic boxes, type the default Testing Time required for partial testing and basic testing of a requirement. Express this as a percentage of the effort required for full testing.

A requirement whose Testing Level is set to None is not tested at all, and the testing effort is zero.

Example: If 20 hours are required to perform full testing on a requirement and partial testing is defined as 75% of full testing, ALM calculates that 15 hours are required to perform partial testing on the requirement.

Testing Policy (in Hours) grid

Defines the level at which to test a requirement of each Risk and Functional Complexity category.

To define these levels, click the arrow next to the cell in the grid. Select a Testing Level from the available Testing Levels. The available Testing Levels are Full, Partial, Basic, and None. Next to each Testing Level, you can see the estimated time needed to test a requirement at that level, based on the Testing Efforts and Testing Levels you defined.