Research on Risk Analysis and Management in the Software Development Process

Abstract

Software risks are uncertain events in the process of software project management and development, and may bring harm or loss to the project plans and system quality. Project managers must identify the risk, analyze them and take action to manage the risks. This paper introduces the concepts of software risk, risk analysis and risk management. It discusses the processing methods of software risks and the means of estimating and managing risks. It mainly analyses the relationship of software risks and development process models. Risk management activities involve several important steps, including identification of the risks, analyzing them, and assigning priorities. It stresses the use of UML and UP process model have great role to reduce all the risks. Researching on software risk analysis and management has a great role for software production and software engineering.