The Role of Independent Verification and Validation in Maintaining a Safety Critical Evolutionary Software in a Complex Environment: The NASA Space Shuttle Program

Authors:
Marvin V. Zelkowitz;Ioana Rus
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering;Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering
Venue:
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Year:
2001

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Abstract

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle program is a multi-billion dollar activity scheduled to span over 40 years. Maintaining such software with requirements for high reliability and mission safety taxes current development methods. In this paper we present how Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) activities are used to support these requirements. We also show how the IV&V activities for this program differ from those of more traditional software developments.