Verification, Validation, and Testing of Engineered Systems
A comprehensive collection of VVT activities and methods for system-wide implementationVerification, Validation, and Testing (VVT) is of extreme importance to systems engineering, where up to 60 percent of systems development cost is expended on VVT activities or correcting system defects.Verification, Validation, and Testing of Engineered Systemsis the first resource to explain this process in a comprehensive, implementable manner. Through a practical approach, the text presents VVT activities performable throughout a system's lifetime, from system definition and design to system use and disposal.Beginning with a thorough explanation of the role of VVT in the process of engineered systems, the book provides a much-needed quantitative, credible model that answers the key questions of what, how, and when one should test, as well as when to stop testing. It equips both new and experienced readers with statistical and fuzzy logic paradigms for quantitative VVT cost, time, and risk models to minimize uncertainties and risks in systems development.Explains the essence of systems' VVT and the linkage between VVT and systems development, manufacturing, use/maintenance and retirementIncludes systems' development and post-development VVT activities, as well as non-testing and testing systems' methods for engineered systemsReveals how to acquire quality data and optimize the VVT strategy in the face of limitations and in accordance with different business objectivesDescribes the methodology used to validate the quality model along with examples outlining a system's quality improvementsPresents actual quality data related to engineered systems as measured in various industriesVerification, Validation, and Testing of Engineered Systemsaids systems and test engineers as well as first- and second-line managers working in systems development and manufacturing industries, civilian agencies, or the military. It can be used as a textbook in graduate-level courses in systems, electrical, aerospace, mechanical, and industrial engineering.