Engel Avner. Verification, Validation, and Testing of Engineered Systems

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010. — 713 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-52751-1.This book attempts to put together a comprehensive compendium of Verifi cation, Validation, and Testing (VVT) activities and corresponding VVT methods for implementation throughout the entire lifecycle of systems (i.e. Definition, Design, Implementation, Integration, Qualification, Production, Use/Maintenance and Disposal). In addition, the book strives to alleviate the fundamental testing conundrum, namely: What should be tested? How should one test? When should one test? And, when should one stop testing? In other words, how should one select a VVT strategy and how should it be optimized? Although early quality pioneers (e.g., Juran in the 1950s) proposed a conceptual quality cost model, no one proposed a quantitative and credible model which can be used to answer
the above questions. This book provides such a model, together with data from a real - life project, which show signifi cant potential savings in either cost, time or both.