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Risk Mitigation Strategies and Metrics

The document outlines various risks associated with project management, such as data loss and resource availability, along with their corresponding mitigation strategies. It also provides metrics and formulas for assessing defect severity, acceptance rates, and testing effectiveness. Additionally, it includes effort estimation and productivity measures related to testing and defect management.

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Risk Mitigation Strategies and Metrics

The document outlines various risks associated with project management, such as data loss and resource availability, along with their corresponding mitigation strategies. It also provides metrics and formulas for assessing defect severity, acceptance rates, and testing effectiveness. Additionally, it includes effort estimation and productivity measures related to testing and defect management.

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No Risk Mitigation Probability Severity

1 Data loss due to crashes/deletions Taking backup at regular intervals


2 Attrition Job rotation at regulat intervals
Delay in staffing up/Resouce Work pro-actively to get resource either by
3 availability recruiting or from other teams
4 Data loss due to virus Ensure the team is updating DAT files
5 Delay in getting bug fixes Track bug fixes and escalate
6 Hardware devices going bad Work with lab in charge to get it done
Effort estimation impact due to
7 shortage of resources Add resources
8 Change in requirements
Automat
Total
Test cases ion Integration Validation
Module Skill classification Effort (Man Hours) Automation
classification (n) Effort Effort (IE) Effort (VE)
Effort (Hours)
(AE)
Profess
Backend GUI Hybrid Beginner ional Expert Low Medium High
n*B*L +
n*P*M +
A n n n 1.3 1 0.7 4 6 10 n*E*H AE * 15% AE*5% AE+IE+VE
n*B*L +
n*P*M +
B n n n 1.3 1 0.7 4 6 10 n*E*H AE * 15% AE*5% AE+IE+VE
Man
Days

Total
Effort/Re
sources
No Metric Formula Remarks Remarks
Defect Severity Sum (n*4+ n*3+n*2+n*1)/Number of Severity Levels - 4 (Critical),
Index defects n- No of defects 3 (Major), 2 (Minor), 1 (low)
Defect Acceptance
Rate (or) Bug
Validity Ratio Valid defects / Defects raised

Defect Rejection
Rate Defects Rejected/ Defects raised
Defect Detection # of Valid Bugs /
Rate # of test cases executed
Defect Injection Major+Minor+Critical defects/
Rate Person Months

Defects found before delivery /


Defect Removal (Defects found before delivery +
efficiency Defects found after delivery)
Defect Density # of defects / Total KLOC
Defect Ratio # of defects / Software Size

Time to find a Execution time + Defect logging time /


defect Defects entered
Time to solve a Diagnosis time + correction time /
defect defects resolved

Test Case Same applies to


Execution Rate # of test cases executed / Person regression,
(TCER) Months automation

Test cases that resulted in Defects / Also called Test


Test case efficiency total test cases Case DD

Defects Captured during review /


Review (Defects captured during review + Denominator is the
Effectiveness Defects escaped during review) total no. of defects
Defects found during testing /
Testing (Defects found during testing +
Effectiveness Customer reported defects)

# of Customer found defects /


Bug Leakage Rate Defects found by test team
# Bugs filed by the team /
Bug filing Rate Person Months

Actual Effort - Planned Effort / Planned


Effort Variation Effort
Actual completion date - Planned date /
Schedule Variation No. of planned elapsed days
Risk Mitigation # of risks mitigated to low priority /
Index Anticipated risks
Requirements covered
---------------------------------
Test Plan Coverage Total Requirements

Bad Fix Defect Bad Fix defect / Valid Fixes

Test Execution
Productivity Test cases executed/ Day per person
Requirements
Requirements (Added+deleted+modified)/ Original
Volatility Requirements
Test Effort
Percentage Test effort/Total project effort
Total detected Defects / (Total
Defect Containment detected defects +Total Escape
Effectiveness Defects)
Defect Productivity No. of defects/Effort Spent in Testing
No. of test cases executed/Effort spent
Test Productivity in Testing

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