Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) and Software Assurance
Independent verification and validation answers two basic questions: are you building the system right, and are you building the right system?
SAIC offers Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) services so you can obtain this crucial information in an environment organizationally free from the influence, guidance and control of the development effort. The tasks that we perform for our customers include:
- Criticality Analysis
- Requirements Analysis
- Requirements Tracing
- Milestone Reviews
- Software Design Analysis
- Metrics
- Test Witnessing
- Test Planning, Execution and Reporting
- Training Evaluation
- Site Acceptance Testing
- Defect Investigation
- Independent Assessments
- Code Analysis
- Document Inspection
SAIC's methodology has redefined IV&V in much the same way that advances in life-cycle processes have improved and standardized software and system engineering. The current SAIC IV&V methodology derived from concepts and standards such as the process maturity framework developed by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's Software Capability Maturity Model Integration (SEI CMMI), the SAIC EngineeringEdge™ (our consistent, company-wide approach to planning, designing, developing, and delivering solutions, products and services to our customers), and IEEE Std 1012 - 2004 IEEE Standard for Software Verification and Validation.
IV&V Tools
SuperTrace Plus is a requirements tracing and management tool designed specifically for IV&V. It drives the IV&V test effort and traces and manages system requirements. SuperTrace Plus supports "what if" analysis when examining changing requirements. The tool contains valuable requirements tracing utilities, reports, and metrics. For more information, view white paper on SuperTrace (36k PDF file*)
Development Lifecycle Network (DLN) is a defect tracking tool. DLN generates, tracks, and manages Change Requests (CRs), defects/enhancements and assessments throughout the software development life-cycle. Remote locations are supported through importing & exporting of data. The tool allows "linking" between multiple related CRs and tracks CR implementation. DLN includes a built-in screening approval process, tracks actions items and features a flexible reporting filtering capability.
SAIC's Risk Identification and Mitigation Scaling (RIMS) Tool is an SAIC-developed solution which classifies program risk and recommends IV&V activities to reduce this risk. The risk assessment methodology is based on:
- System Complexity
- Required Integrity
- Development Environment
- Any Customer/System-unique Parameters
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