Software Verification and Validation: Its Role in Computer Assurance and Its Relationship with Software Project Management Standards

摘要

The report describes how the software verification and validation methodology and V&V standards provide a strong framework for developing quality software. First, the report describes software V&V, its objectives, recommended tasks, and guidance for selecting techniques to perform V&V. It explains the difference between V&V and quality assurance, development system engineering, and user organization functions. The report explains that V&V produces maximum benefits when it is performed independent of development functions and provides a brief discussion of how V&V benefits change when embedded in quality assurance, development systems engineering, and user organizations. An analysis of two studies of V&V's cost-effectiveness concludes that cost benefits of V&V's early error detection outweigh the cost of performing V&V.