Software Engineering

15.1.3 
Establish V&V procedures
The procedures for conducting V&V tasks must be prepared to establish the 
intended approach for accomplishing a sequence of actions. Procedures provide 
Table 15.1 
Software V&V Task Elements
Practice
Description
Importance
Validate recovery 
from injected fault 
conditions
Confirm that the physical architecture is adequately 
configured to detect, isolate, and recover (return 
to a previous state of health) from anticipated 
faults or degraded modes of operation (computing 
environment or external systems).
Important 
(advisable)
Validate 
execution under 
demanding work 
loads
Confirm that the physical architecture is adequately 
configured to conduct data processing transactions 
during periods of stressful workloads.
Important 
(advisable)
Validate the 
adequacy of 
the computing 
environment
Confirm that the computing environment is adequately 
specified to preserve software product operational 
performance.
Essential 
(mandatory)
(
Continued
)

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