Testing and Validation

Testing is a complex engineering effort and must be well planned in order to be executed properly. In order to test a product the supplier must be able to identify the various levels of testing to be performed and the requirements for those levels of testing. This chapter focuses mainly on the supplier’s responsibilities for testing the product from the unit tests through system-level testing and on into field tests. Generally speaking, for each level of testing the supplier must identify the requirements being tested, test methods to be used, software and hardware resources required to execute the tests, and schedule and budget required to develop the test cases, identify the expected results, and actually run the tests.