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Infusion of Perspective-Based Inspection in NASA IV&V
Point of Contact Kurt Woodham
Kurt.Woodham@L-3Com.com
Dates April 2008 - December 2008
Problem IV&V of NASA systems has become increasingly important for ensuring system and software quality. While substantial research lately has been focused on improving model-based IV&V approaches to improve rigorous software verification, techniques that can be applied to validate products in the very early lifecycle (before there is a model to analyze) have been relatively neglected. This infusion project will apply Perspective-Based Inspection (PBI), which was developed via research with and infusion on multiple NASA software development projects, for the first time in the context of NASA IV&V. It will be applied to validate early lifecycle work products and IV&V-developed reference models with the goal to interface as much as possible with later model-based analyses.
Objective The goal of the adoption of PBI techniques is to:
  • Provide additional rigor and structure in the validation of IV&V-generated reference models;
  • Decrease the number of undetected defects in early-lifecycle products under IV&V;
  • Increase the quality of issue reports sent to the NASA project;
  • Not appreciably increase the overall cost of IV&V.
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    Keywords
    Categories Code Analysis
    Design Analysis
    Requirements Analysis
    Static Analysis


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