Summary

In this chapter, the fundamental issues of verification and validation were discussed, both of which relate to testing activities. The key difference between the two is that verification shows that we have built the system right whereas validation shows that we have built the right system.

Verification and validation are particularly interesting from an MBSE point of view as the structure, content, and behavior of the testing activities are defined using our standard MBSE techniques for processes (see Chapter 5, Systems Engineering Processes) and frameworks, however, we are able to reuse many of the views that we have generated as a part of our MBSE activities.

This is a very important aspect of MBSE, as the more that we can reuse views from any part of the model, then the more time and effort we will save.

Finally, we looked at how the techniques used in this chapter comply with international best practice, in the form of ISO 15288, and we looked at the partial framework...