Risks

The dictionary definition of a risk is a situation involving exposure to danger. Software development risks are situations that can negatively impact your project, your product, or your business. This may include loss of quality, money, damage to reputation, or safety to others. Identifying risks early can help you mitigate them. 

You can determine as a team whether they are unacceptable or unacceptable risk. Risks can also inform how and where we should test as well. Just like you can't find every bug in a product, you can't discover every risk. 

Risks can appear anywhere on a project or a product, which in a large domain can be hard to manage. Risks are viewed very negatively in many cases for some people, and they can be biased towards not wanting to identify them or accept them. 

As software testing and quality professionals we sometimes have to be advocates for risks, which takes skill. Example risks: Installability is a type of risk. This is a risk around installing maybe an app on your phone. 

There are different types of data risks which are around the amount of or the type of data flowing through your application. There are also performance risks. Performance risks could be user load or data load, that affects the speed, of your applications. 

Risk refers to any potential event or condition that could adversely impact the project or product, ranging from minor software bugs to significant issues that harm business operations, reputation, or legal standing.

Risk is about much more than just defects or products. Risk is about impact; consequences; human beings. A risk isn't just a bug that might happen. A risk is something which could have a significant negative impact on real people.