Validation and Verification

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
V&V
Pronunciation
/ˌvæləˈdeɪʃən ənd ˌvɛrəfəˈkeɪʃən/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA

Examples in Context

  1. This cycle represents a widely accepted approach to validation and verification of software-intensive systems.
  2. This situation raises the question of how to do reasonably independent validation and verification in systems engineering.
  3. In the System Engineering context, customers use our product to support the system validation and verification based on Hardware / Software Consistency and Functional Analysis.
  4. Their method of validation and verification is well understood and clearly defined by the distinction between the three cornerstones of the software and systems development lifecycle : requirements gathering, code generation, and test, as shown in Figure 1.
  5. In a typical IT project these notions are carefully kept separate for practical, often contractual, reasons and for reasons of validation and verification.

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