Development of a Systems Verification, Validation Testing-Methodology

摘要

While many are aware of the Rule-of-rnTen, describing the effects of late changes in the productrndevelopment process; system verification, validationrnand testing are activities that are often regarded asrntasks to be done at the very end of the development.rnThis perception causes a number of problems (in termsrnof time-to-market, expenses, etc.) for many enterprises.rnBeing aware of this situation a consortium of eightrnEuropean companies, research institutes and organizationsrn(see Figure 1) has formed to develop a methodologyrnfor system Verification, Validation and Testingrn(VVT). The project was launched in March 2002 andrnwill continue for three years. It will be carried out withrnfunding from the European Community under the 5thrnFramework Program (Project G1RD-CT-2002-00683).rnThis Paper gives an overview of the objectives, structurernand the contents of the project. The paper is a firstrnin a series that will report on the progress of VVTrnmethodology development.