Risk based testing

Independent consultant in software testing and testing improvement matters. Guest lectures at several universities in Norway about Quality Assurance and Software Testing. Public and in-house seminars in Software Review and Testing in Scandinavian and European countries. Regularly speaking at conferences. Several best paper awards. (Best presentation award at CONQUEST 2003, best paper in 2004).

Recent customers:
ABB, AOL, ASQF, Jitong railway (China), Kongsberg Maritime, Lucent (Germany), Nokia, Norwegian Television, Norwegian Work Directorate, Norwegian Tax Directorate, Norwegian Police, Saabtech, Siemens, Stryker, Telenor, Visma.

Recent presentations and tutorials:
At ICSTEST, CONQUEST, 3rd World Congress on Software Quality, EuroSTAR conferences.

How to fight product risk
How to manage a test project under pressure
- What is risk
- How to manage risk: The risk management life cycle
- How to identify risk in software project: Main risks and possible reactions
    o Cost
    o Scope and Quality
    o Time
    o Resources
- Risk based testing: How to prioritize based on product risk
    o Overall priority scheme
    o Factors determining damage
    o Factors determining probability
    o The difficulty to find faults
    o A simple method to determine and calculate risk
    o Selection of test methods and coverage according to risk
    o How to do the risk based testing if you know little or nothing

- Project risk management in test projects: Risks before, during and after the test
- Test coverage and risk
- Changes and corrections and risk in test
- Summary, References