Software Technology Risk Advisor

This paper describes the Software Technology Risk Advisor (STRA), a knowledge-based software engineering tool that provides assistance in identifiing and managing sojbare technology risks. The STRA contains a knowledgebase of software product and process needs, satisfiing capabilities, and capability maturity factors. Afrer a user ranks the importance of relevant nee& to his or her project, the STRA automatically infers risk areas by evaluating disparities between project needs and technology maturities. Ident$ed risks are quantitatively prioritized and the user is given risk reduction advice and rationale for each conclusion. This paper presents metho& used in the STRA, along with discussions of knowledge acquisition, experimental results, current status, and related work.