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In projects following waterfall, or one of the waterfall variants, in their SDLC, RBT can fit as follows (high-level, simplified overview).

1. Risk Identification & Risk Assessment
   1. BAs together with the team discuss risks on the ”Requirement Analysis” phase 
2. Risk Treatment
   1. performed by testers, during the “Testing” phase
      1. Test Planning takes the inputs of Risk Assessment to define the testing strategy and effort; the testing scope is agreed
      2. if adopting the scripted testing approach, testers start by detailing exaustively test cases for the most risky item, during Test Design
      3. testers will perform more in-depth testing on the risky items during Test Execution
      4. if important bugs are found on the risky items, the software can go back to "Implementation" phase as-soon-as-possible
3. Risk Monitoring and Reviewing
   1. throughout the project lifecycle

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