Software Risk Assessment: A Review on Small and Medium Software Projects

Abstract. Software risk assessment is a process of identifying, analyzing,
and prioritizing risks. In general, there are large, medium, and small
software projects that each of them can be influenced by a risk. Therefore,
it needs a unique assessment process of the possible risks that may
cause failure or loss of the project if they occur. In the literature, there
are wide range of risk assessment researches conducted toward software
projects. But there is at least view researches focusing on risk assessment
of small and medium software projects. This creates a gap for the
risk assessment research field which can cause most of small and medium
project without having risk assessment. Therefore, the main focus of the
paper is to give researchers an insight of the current level of risk assessment
for small and medium software development projects. Finally, some
future directions will be discussed hoping to insight the gap of the risk
assessment field for small and medium software development projects.
Keywords: Small and Medium Software Development Projects, Software
Risk Assessment.