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If you outsource the development of customized software for your organization, who is watching out for your interests? Development organizations may attempt to reduce their costs or meet deadlines by cutting corners in ways that reduce the usability, reliability, or performance of the application they are designing for you.

This is where Independent Verification and Validation becomes a critical part of the project team. An IV&V provider is a knowledgeable and engaged advocate working on your behalf throughout the development process, independent of any business considerations or internal politics of development organizations.

Technical independence ensures that IV&V providers practice accepted Quality Assurance methodologies.
Managerial independence allows IV&V providers to offer objective and timely reporting directly to your organization.
Financial independence, in the form of a separate budget, ensures that IV&V effectiveness is not compromised.

Verification Activities Include

•	Verifying that each step in the development process is complete and on track.
•	Ensuring entry and exit criteria are met for each phase of development.
•	Ensuring strict adherence to testing methodologies
•	Conducting walk-thrus, peer reviews and inspections of all project deliverables

Validation Activities Include

•	Validating that the final product satisfies functional and other requirements as documented in original design specifications.
•	Providing timely test status, test case and defect management reports.
•	Managing changes to requirements
•	Ensuring that all testing environments are properly configured
•	Providing coverage metrics to ascertain the health of the AUT at any given time during the test execution process.

Why use IV&V?
Software is critical to the effectiveness, competitiveness, and survival of your organization. Unexpected behavior or critical problems that bring your operations to a standstill are just not an option. Independent Verification and Validation increases the probability that customized software will achieve:

• Design requirements
• Objectives within budget constraints
• Scheduled delivery dates

When integrated into the software development life cycle, IV&V can detect and identify risk elements throughout the entire software development process. This allows development and quality assurance managers to respond quickly in order to mitigate risks earlier in the product development life cycle, with more effectiveness, and with less impact on cost and schedule.

• Leverages Proven Industry Practices
• Maximize return on investments
• Custom Solutions
• Immediate productivity
• Cost Effective
• Thought Leadership

• Specialty Testing
• Strategic QA Consulting
• Independent Verification and Validation
• QA Process Consulting
• Test Management
• Test Automation
• IT Consulting and Staffing

QSoft Consulting
PO Box 562
Glastonbury, CT 06033-0562

email: info@qsoftconsultingllc.com

toll free: 877-EXPRT-QA (877.397.7872)
phone: 860.777.9022
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