Risk-Based Testing

Summary

Prioritizing testing effort toward the highest-risk areas (most likely to fail, most costly if they do) rather than spreading effort evenly across all functionality — essential when time doesn't allow testing everything equally.

• 1Rank 5 hypothetical features by risk (likelihood of failure x impact of failure).
• 2Learn to allocate more testing depth to higher-risk areas deliberately.
• 3Practice justifying a risk-based testing prioritization decision to a stakeholder.