Defining technical risks in software development

Antinyan, Vard,1984Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU),University of Gothenburg (författare)

Challenges of technical risk assessment is difficult to address, while its success can benefit software organizations appreciably. Classical definition of risk as a 'combination of probability and impact of adverse event' appears not working with technical risk assessment. The main reason of this is the nature of adverse event's outcome which is rather continuous than discrete. The objective of this study was to scrutinize different aspects of technical risks and provide a definition, which will support effective risk assessment and management in software development organizations. In this study we defined the risk considering the nature of actual risks, emerged in software development. Afterwards, we summarized the software engineers' view on technical risks as results of three workshops with 15 engineers of four software development companies. The results show that technical risks could be viewed as a combination of uncertainty and magnitude of difference between actual and optimal design of product artifacts and processes. The presented definition is congruent with practitioners view on technical risk. It supports risk assessment in a quantitative manner and enables identification of potential product improvement areas.

Staron, Miroslaw,1977Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU),University of Gothenburg,Software Center(Swepub:gu)xstmir (författare)
Meding, W. (författare)
Henriksson, A. (författare)
Hansson, Jörgen,1970Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)jorhans (författare)
Sandberg, A. (författare)
Göteborgs universitetInstitutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU) (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Joint Conference of the 24th International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2014 and the 9th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, Mensura 2014; ss RotterdamRotterdam; Netherlands; 6 October 2014 through 8 October 2014: IEEE9781479941742
Ingår i:International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement: IEEE

Av författaren/redakt...: Antinyan, Vard, ...; Staron, Miroslaw ...; Meding, W.; Henriksson, A.; Hansson, Jörgen, ...; Sandberg, A.

Om ämnet

NATURVETENSKAP: NATURVETENSKAP; och Data och informa ...; och Programvarutekni ...

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.