Risk Analysis and Test Strategy

“It isn’t possible to test everything!” This is something that must be under­stood by all the stakeholders. But how do you decide what has to be tested? A good test strategy is necessary because, otherwise, time and effort will not be focused in the best possible way and it will be hard to communicate the status of the covered product risks. In the test strategy, the test manager indicates what is to be tested, but also what is not to be tested. This is decided on the basis of the product risks and the priority assigned to them, assessed by the product risk analysis. To implement the test strategy, allowance has to be made within the test project for the project risks: which elements might obstruct the progress of the test project?