Risk Assessment Tab

This tab enables you to determine the Business Criticality, Failure Probability, and Functional Complexity of a requirement by assigning them values directly or by assigning values to a set of criteria.

To access	Use one of the following: In the Requirements module, select the Requirement Details view. Select an assessment requirement and click the Risk Assessment tab. In the Requirements module, right-click an assessment requirement and select Requirement Details. The Requirement Details dialog box opens. Click the Risk Assessment button.
Important information	If you do not determine the Business Criticality, Failure Probability, and Functional Complexity for a requirement, ALM does not include the requirement in the risk analysis. You can customize the criteria, their possible values, and how these values determine the Business Criticality, Failure Probability, and Functional Complexity. You can also customize how the Business Criticality and Failure Probability are used to calculate the Risk. For details, see Customize risk-based quality management.
Relevant tasks	How to Assess Risk
See also	Risk Analysis Tab Risk-Based Quality Management Overview

Risk Assessment Tab Common Elements

Common user interface elements are described below:

UI Element	Description
Assessment Status	The current status of the assessment requirement. An assessment status can be one of the following: Not Started, In Progress, and Completed.
Exclude from Analysis	Ignores the selected assessment requirement when performing risk analysis.

Assessment Results Tab - Assessments Summary Area

This area displays the assigned or calculated values of the Risk and Functional Complexity of an assessment requirement.

Important information	The Assessments Summary area shows the Risk and Functional Complexity values calculated in the Assessment Questions tab. You can ignore these values and use instead custom values.
Relevant tasks	How to Assess Risk
See also	Assessment Questions Tab

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element	Description
Risk	Calculates the risk based on the Business Criticality and Failure Probability for the requirement. Select Use custom to ignore the calculated value and use instead a custom value. Possible values are A - High, B - Medium, and C - Low.
Business Criticality	Measures how important the requirement is to your business. Select Use custom to ignore the calculated value and use instead a custom value. Possible values are A - Critical, B - Important, and C - Nice to Have. Example: A requirement affecting a minor feature that is likely to be used rarely might be assigned a `Nice to Have` Business Criticality, whereas a requirement that is essential to your application's functionality would probably be assigned a `Critical` Business Criticality.
Failure Probability	Measures how likely a test on the requirement is to fail. Select Use custom to ignore the calculated value and use instead a custom value. Possible values are 1 - High, 2 - Medium, and 3 - Low. Example: A requirement whose implementation involves making significant changes across most areas of your application would probability be assigned a `High` Failure Probability. In contrast, a requirement that involves changing an icon in your application would probably not have many associated risks, and so is likely to be assigned a `Low` Failure Probability.
Functional Complexity	Indicates the complexity of the requirement's implementation. Select Use custom to ignore the calculated value and use instead a custom value. Possible values are 1 - High, 2 - Medium, and 3 - Low. Example: A requirement whose implementation involves making significant changes to your application to enable it to communicate with other systems probably has a high complexity and would be assigned a `High` Functional Complexity. In contrast, a requirement that involves no significant changes to enable your application to communicate with other systems would probably not have many associated risks, and so is likely to be assigned a `Low` Functional Complexity.

Assessment Results Tab - Testing Policy Area

This area displays the conclusions of the last analysis you performed on an analysis requirement that is the parent of the assessment requirement.

Important information	To view and edit the testing policy of an assessment requirement in the Testing Policy area, you must first perform analysis on relevant analysis requirements (parent requirements) and apply results to all assessment requirements (children requirements) in the Risk Analysis tab.
Relevant tasks	How to Assess Risk
See also	Risk Analysis Tab

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element (A - Z)	Description
Based on analysis requirement	Displays the analysis requirement on which the last analysis that included the current requirement was performed. You can click the analysis requirement's name to go to the analysis requirement in the requirements tree.
Calculated Testing Level	The level at which to test the requirement, as calculated in the last analysis that included the current requirement.
Calculated Testing Time	The time allocated to test the requirement, as calculated in the last analysis that included the current requirement.
Estimated development time (optional)	The estimated time needed to develop the requirement. ALM can then calculate the total estimated development time for an analysis requirement and its children as the sum of the estimated development times of the children. Assigning the estimated development time is optional, and does not affect the risk analysis.
Last analyzed on date	The date on which the last analysis that included the current requirement was performed.
Use these for the next calculation	Overrides the calculated values in the next calculation, and instead uses custom values. In the Testing Level box, select the Testing Level to use for the next calculation. In the Testing Time box, type the Testing Effort to use for the next calculation. When you next perform an analysis that includes the current requirement, these values are used instead of the calculated values.

Assessment Questions Tab

This tab displays lists of criteria used to determine Business Criticality, Failure Probability, and Functional Complexity.

Relevant tasks	How to Assess Risk
See also	Risk Analysis Tab

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element	Description
Business Criticality/Failure Probability/Functional Complexity tab	Each tab lists criteria to consider when assessing each category.
criteria	Lists the criteria to use for assessing a selected category.
Value	Lists the possible values that can be assigned to each criterion.
Description of Criterion	Explains the selected criterion.
Calculated Business Criticality/ Calculated Failure Probability/Calculated Functional Complexity	Updates according to the values you assigned to the criteria of the selected category. Note: You can ignore the value calculated on the basis of the values for the criteria, and use instead a custom value when performing risk analysis. In the Assessment Summary area of the Assessment Results tab, select Use custom.

Risk Assessment Tab

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