System verification and validation (V&V)

A preliminary overview on the connection between Application Lifecycle Management and Product Lifecycle Management is proposed, by introducing the contents and the strategies of the Verification and Validation activities. The chapter should allow the Reader distinguishing the two activities and even the tools and the goals related. A comparison between the typical approaches applied in Software and Hardware Engineering, respectively, is briefly deployed. A preliminary relation with the RAMS analysis, dealing with Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety, is discussed, especially in the two test cases.