Software Engineering Institute

Software verification and validation techniques are introduced, and their applicability is discussed. Approaches to integrating these techniques into comprehensive verification and validation plans are also addressed. This curriculum module provides an overview needed to understand in-depth curriculum modules in the verification and validation area.

This module and its subordinate, in-depth module, are intended to support the goal of preparing professional software engineering students to analyze the V&V objectives and concerns of a particular project, examine the project's constraints, plan a comprehensive V&V strategy that includes the selection of t4echiques, track the progress of the V&V activity, and assess the effectiveness of the techniques used and that of the overall V&V plan. Typically, the educational objectives of the software engineering educator teaching V&V topics will be more modest.