Test Program Verification

For very high value or otherwise critical development efforts, a customer may elect to procure an independent assessment of the system developer’s T&E program. This effort is typically known as Test Program Verification or simply Test Verification. The Test Verification agent may be brought in by the developer (but kept distinct from the developer’s T&E organization), or the agent may be directly hired by the Government customer, to achieve a higher degree of independence.

Since the intent is to drive rigorous developmental T&E effort, many of the same activities and issues discussed in our DT&E write-up are relevant to this effort, although the perspective is different (e.g., the Test Verification agent does not plan or execute tests). Although both the Test Verification agent and OT&E agent may both be members of an Integrated Test Team, their mutual interaction is apt to limited.

Test Verification involves many of the Test Verification steps defined in GreenDart’s Verification and Validation – Test description. However, the target for this effort is to review and assess the developer’s Requirements Verification Plan (RVP) and their Requirements Verification Report (RVR). Successful assessment of these developer products is critical to achieve customer confidence in the developer’s test program and, therefore, confidence in the successful delivery of the desired system. The figure below shows a notional Test Verification process flow.

RVP/RVR Assessment Process Flow

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