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hef19898onJuly 1, 2019
alexmlambonSep 5, 2019
The idea that you should try to avoid making mistakes seems like a good one, but also is rather obvious, and the right threshold is also obviously problem dependent.
I suppose the idea is kind of fluff, but of all the fluffy ideas out there, trying to be reliable and dependable is probably one of the better ones.
matt_sonJuly 10, 2015
The concept is you list all the possible failure modes in one column, then score the severity (1-10, 10 most severe), occurrence probability (1-10, 10 highest probability), and detection probability (1-10, 10=lowest probability) in other columns. Multiply those to rank the risks and then list out ways to improve or fix the risk, etc.
A software angle would be listing ways your application would fail, or go down to lower level components inside the app.
A tricky concept with the scoring is the detection piece. If you don't have a good way to detect the failure then it ends up being really high ranking. I typically used 1,5,10 for the scores since ending up in a debate about is it a 6 or 7 or 8 is a waste of time.
Once you work on improvements for a failure mode, like additional logging for an NullPointerException, then adjust the scores.
If you are doing TDD, this would be a good way to identify areas to build testing coverage.