From the course: ISTQB Foundation Cert Prep
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Risks and testing
From the course: ISTQB Foundation Cert Prep
Risks and testing
- [Instructor] Risk involves the possibility of an event in the future, which has negative consequences. The level of risk is determined by the likelihood of the event and the impact from that event. Product risk involves the possibility that a work product may fail to satisfy the legitimate needs of its users or its stakeholders. When the product risks are associated with specific quality characteristics of a product, like reliability, they are also called quality risks. Examples of product risks can include software might not perform its intended functions according to the specification. Software might not perform its intended functions according to the user. The system architecture may not adequately support some of the non-functional requirements. A particular computation may be performed incorrectly in some circumstances. And finally, response times may be inadequate for a high-performance transaction processing…
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