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6.3.3 Cultural Risks
With outsourced test projects, where the majority of the team is located at offshore
locations, communication and cultural risks pose the biggest threats to the project.
With more and more software testing being offshored to lower-cost countries in
Asia and eastern Europe, cultural issues play a major risk factor, as different cul-
tures have different working environments, different values, different expectations,
and different productivity.
6.3.4 Process Risks
Suppose a project is being executed by a company whose employees have experience
working on similar projects but have not adopted any formal process methodology for
executing those projects. Consider now that the same project is taken ...