Software risk assessment visualization tool design using probabilistic inference models

Managing software projects is a great challenge to many project managers. Due to cost, time or flexibility for software projects, risk management has been adopted by organizations as an alternative managing software projects method. This paper will discuss on the design of software risk assessment visualization tool using probabilistic model. Though there are many approaches in assessing software risks, the probabilistic inference models is chosen to characterize the uncertainty and measure the risks in software development process. The proposed tool, RAVT will assess risks depends on the input determined by user based on the questions given. Questions are depends on the critical risk elements category sets by users based on their assumption and experience working in the software projects.