System and method for analyzing risks present in a software program code

摘要

A system and method for analyzing risk factors to enhance the quality of program code have been disclosed. The risks are identified and evaluated, post which test cases are defined for each of the identified risk factors. Further, the defect density, code complexity and change rate corresponding to each of the test cases is determined. Risk profiles are created for each of the test cases. The risk profiles are categorized based on defect density, complexity of the code and change rate. The test cases are evaluated depending upon the risk posed by new scripts added to the program code. The scripts need to be executed for satisfying a necessary and sufficient condition are decided based on the correlation between program code files, activities on those files, defects corresponding to those files and test cases used to test those defects.