Day 8 - HP ALM- Risk Based Quality Management ( RBQM)

Risk Based Quality Management(RBQM)
                This is the mathematical calculation to calculate at which level all the requirements has to be tested. This calculation is based on the following factors

• Nature of the requirements.
• Resource available.

Each requirement type with risk based quality management enabled can support either

• Risk Analysis  ( calculation done for the parent requirement based on the child's result)
• Risk Assessment  (calculation done for individual child requirement) 

Analysis Requirement

              This is used to determine the testing effort and testing strategy based on the child requirement assessment result.

Assessment Requirement

• An assessment requirement is a child children of analysis requirements and at a lower level in the requirements tree hierarchy.  Assessment compressed of following two

• Risk------- Business criticality and failure probability.
• Functional complexity.

     Risk

        To  calculate the risk for the assessment requirement you have to calculate

•        Business criticality.
•        Failure probability.

      Possible values for the Risk are

• 1 - High.
• 2 - Medium.
• 3 - Low. 

    Business criticality

           This is to measure how crucial(important) a requirement is for the business. Possible values are

•     A - Critical.
•     B - Important.
•     C - Nice to have.

   Failure probability

            This will indicate how much possible a test based on the requirement is to fail. Possible values are

• 1 - High.
• 2 - Medium.
• 3 - Low. 

   Functional complexity
            This will indicate the complexity of the requirement's implementation. possible values are

• 1 - High.
• 2 - Medium.
• 3 - Low. 

Steps for assess the risk
           Before calculating the requirement analysis you got to calculate the requirement assessment. Because analysis is based on the assessment result.

1. Assess requirement.
2. Define testing policy setting.
3. Finalize the teasing policy.
4. Analyze the testing strategy based on assessment.

Assess requirement
             To access the risk assessment in the ALM window follow the steps below

• Select the requirement module in the ALM window.
• Select the child requirement with RBQM enabled.
• Click the "Risk Assessment" tab in the requirement details view( view>Requirement details)

Risk assessment tab

Click the Assessment Questions tab. The following sub-tabs are displayed

• Business Criticality.
• Failure Probability.
• Functional Complexity. 

In each sub-tab, assign values to the set of criteria.  You can also ignore assigning the values to set the criteria, and  instead use a custom value. To assign values directly to each category, click the Assessment Results tab. Calculate the risk and functional complexity for each and every child requirement under the requirement analysis.

Define testing policy setting
           After calculating the requirement for each and every child requirement. It is time to set the testing policy according to the assessment result. To set the testing policy

• 1. In the requirements tree, select the analysis requirement( parent requirement). Click the Risk Analysis tab.