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Software Risk Management: Using the Automated Tools

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Software development process nowadays faces many challenges and risks. In order to manage risks we need to understand the scope and objectives of the software developments and use the appropriate automated risk management tool. The study addresses software risk management in software development area and an approach to analysis, structuring, and evaluating risk with the help of specialized automated tools. The author provides recommendations on how to define a set of selection criteria for automated tools and analyses the growing demand for service hosting solutions and web-applications, stressing that almost any software including risk management tools can be successfully run using this method.

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Avdoshin, S.M., Pesotskaya, E.Y. (2016). Software Risk Management: Using the Automated Tools. In: Becker, J., Kozyrev, O., Babkin, E., Taratukhin, V., Aseeva, N. (eds) Emerging Trends in Information Systems. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23929-3_8

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