Patent ID: 7669180

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for assessing risk of performance of a software development project, the method comprising: receiving software project data for assessing risks in a software development project, the software project data comprising: defect data relating to a defect in the software development project, test case history data comprising data on the type of test case, definition of a test case, times and dates when the test case was performed, current status of data on which the test case was performed, results of the test case, metadata on the results of the test case, and development and revisions of the test case, and execution result data including results of executing rules designed to capture risk data of the software development project; storing the software project data in a computer storage device; identifying a plurality of focus areas for analysis; defining a set of analysis tasks for each focus area; creating one or more rule sets for each analysis task, each rule set comprising one or more rules including software project data; evaluating each rule set against the software project data; summarizing results of evaluating each rule set corresponding to an analysis task; and providing a risk assessment value for each analysis task using the results of the summarizing step.