Software Risks Correlation Analysis Using Meta-analysis

Software risk identification is the first and critical activity adopted in software risk management process. Checklist, as a low cost and easy-to-operate method, is hard to get a comprehensive view of the whole kinds of risks due to culture diversity and location restriction. After getting a synthetic risk list by examining a series of checklists, we formed a legible and integral impression of the frequency and importance of the whole risks with the help of the meta-analysis framework. The top ten risks were listed compared with Boehm’s and SPSS was used to analyze the correlations between different categories and major risks.