VALIDATING AND MAINTAINING RESPECTIVE VALIDATION STATUS OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES

摘要

Validating and maintaining respective validated status of software applications and manufacturing systems and processes is presented herein. A validation system can comprise a mapping component configured to extract, from a set of requirement specification documents, individual requirement specifications; and extract, from a set of test function documents, test steps. Further, the validation system can comprise a tracing component configured to generate a trace matrix associating the individual requirement specifications with respective test steps of the test functions or respective documents of the set of requirement specification documents. In an aspect, the validation system can enforce, via respective object linking and embedding control extensions, respective roles of authors, reviewers, and approvers of the set of requirement specification documents. In another aspect, the validation system can electronically receive and insert test results in the set of test function documents. Further, the validation system can perform automated validation of software in execution.