Front Cover -- System Verification -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Part 1 SETTING THE STAGE -- Chapter 1.1 The Global Verification Situation -- 1.1.1 The Meaning of the Word Verification -- 1.1.2 Verification Classes -- 1.1.2.1 Item Qualification -- 1.1.2.2 Item Acceptance -- 1.1.2.3 System Test and Evaluation -- 1.1.3 Feedback into Product Models -- 1.1.4 Technical Data Assessment -- 1.1.5 Process Verification -- 1.1.6 Program Assembly of the Verification Process -- 1.1.6.1 High-Rate Production Program -- 1.1.6.2 Low-Volume, High-Dollar Production Program -- 1.1.6.3 One-of-a-Kind Production Program -- 1.1.7 Verification Documentation Intensity -- 1.1.8 In the Aggregate -- Chapter 1.2 Introduction to System Development -- 1.2.1 What Is a System? -- 1.2.2 System Development -- 1.2.3 Three Steps on the Way to Great Systems -- 1.2.4 Organizational Structure -- 1.2.5 The Systems Approach -- 1.2.6 The Two Vs -- 1.2.7 The Foundation of System Engineering -- 1.2.8 System Development Phasing Overview -- 1.2.9 Toward a Standard Process -- 1.2.10 Development Environments -- 1.2.10.1 The Waterfall Development Model -- 1.2.10.2 The Spiral Development Model -- 1.2.10.3 The V Development Model -- 1.2.10.4 The N Development Model -- 1.2.10.5 Development Environment Integration -- Chapter 1.3 Requirements Analysis Overview -- 1.3.1 Requirements -- 1.3.2 The Need and Its Initial Expansion Using Traditional Structured Analysis -- 1.3.3 Structured Decomposition Using Traditional Structured Analysis -- 1.3.3.1 Functional Analysis -- 1.3.3.2 Performance Requirements Analysis -- 1.3.3.3 Design Constraints Analysis -- 1.3.3.3.1 Interface Requirements Analysis -- 1.3.3.3.2 Environmental Requirements Analysis -- 1.3.3.3.3 Specialty Engineering Requirements Analysis.

1.3.4 Computer Software Approaches -- 1.3.5 Verification Requirements -- 1.3.6 Applicable Documents -- 1.3.7 Process Requirements Analysis -- Part 2 ITEM QUALIFICATION VERIFICATION -- Chapter 2.1 Verification Requirements -- 2.1.1 Verification Documentation -- 2.1.2 Item Planning Fundamentals -- 2.1.2.1 Traceability Matrix -- 2.1.2.2 Verification Methods -- 2.1.2.3 Product and Verification Levels -- 2.1.2.4 Verification Classes -- 2.1.2.5 Items Subject to Qualification and Acceptance -- 2.1.2.6 Verification Directionality -- 2.1.2.7 Product Verification Layering -- 2.1.2.8 Verification Requirements Definition Timing -- 2.1.3 Verification Requirements Analysis -- 2.1.3.1 Selecting the Method -- 2.1.3.2 Writing Responsibility and Support -- 2.1.3.3 Writing the Verification Paragraph -- 2.1.4 Verification Planning, Data Capture, and Documentation -- 2.1.5 Section 4 Structure -- 2.1.5.1 MIL-STD-961E Structure -- 2.1.5.2 An Alternate Structure -- 2.1.5.3 External Verification Requirements Documentation -- 2.1.6 Verification Computer Databases -- Chapter 2.2 Top-Down Verification Planning -- 2.2.1 A Matter of Scale -- 2.2.2 Expansion of Function F44 -- 2.2.3 Item Qualification Process -- 2.2.4 The Planning Transform -- 2.2.5 Qualification Process Implementation -- 2.2.6 Specific Task Processes -- 2.2.6.1 Generic Test Task -- 2.2.6.2 Generic Analysis Task -- 2.2.6.3 Generic Examination Task -- 2.2.6.4 Generic Demonstration Task -- 2.2.7 Program Task Structuring -- Chapter 2.3 Item Qualification Test Planning Analysis -- 2.3.1 Overview -- 2.3.2 Qualification Test Program Planning -- 2.3.2.1 Test Philosophy -- 2.3.2.2 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning -- 2.3.2.3 Qualification Test Scheduling -- 2.3.2.4 Qualification Test Item Selection -- 2.3.2.5 Item to Task Transformation -- 2.3.2.6 Verification Information Organization -- 2.3.3 Item Planning Cycle.

2.3.3.1 Verification Matrix Test Data Fusion -- 2.3.3.2 Qualification Process Design -- 2.3.3.2.1 Test Task Goals -- 2.3.3.2.2 Process Analysis -- 2.3.3.2.3 Resource Identification -- 2.3.3.3 Test Procedure Development -- 2.3.3.4 Validate the Plan -- 2.3.4 Integrated Verification Plan Test Integration -- 2.3.5 Special Problems in Verification through Test -- 2.3.5.1 Life Cycle Requirements -- 2.3.5.2 Rare Environmental Conditions -- 2.3.5.3 An Infinite Multiplicity of Combinations -- 2.3.6 Product-Specific Test Planning -- 2.3.6.1 Hardware -- 2.3.6.2 Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) -- 2.3.6.3 Firmware -- 2.3.6.4 Computer Software -- 2.3.6.4.1 Software Test Sequences -- 2.3.6.4.2 Software Test Methods -- 2.3.6.5 Personnel Procedures -- 2.3.7 Commercial Subset -- Chapter 2.4 Item Qualification Test Implementation -- 2.4.1 Implementation Responsibility and Organizational Structure -- 2.4.2 General Coordination Activities -- 2.4.3 Individual Test Coordination -- 2.4.3.1 Authorization to Proceed -- 2.4.3.2 Test Preparation -- 2.4.3.3 Test Readiness Review -- 2.4.3.4 Test Task Go-Ahead -- 2.4.3.5 Test Conduct -- 2.4.3.6 Resolving Test Problems -- 2.4.3.7 Test Results Documentation and Review -- 2.4.3.8 Residual Disposition -- 2.4.4 Intertest and Intermethod Coordination -- 2.4.5 Qualification Test Sequencing -- 2.4.6 First Production Article Integration -- Chapter 2.5 Nontest Item Qualification Methods Coordination -- 2.5.1 Other Methods and Meanings -- 2.5.2 Nontest Verification Responsibility -- 2.5.3 Nontest Documentation -- 2.5.4 Analysis -- 2.5.4.1 Specialty Engineering Requirements -- 2.5.4.1.1 System Safety -- 2.5.4.1.2 Reliability -- 2.5.4.1.3 Maintainability -- 2.5.4.1.4 Mass Properties -- 2.5.4.1.5 Specialty Engineering Verification Integration -- 2.5.4.2 Interface Requirements Verification Analysis.

2.5.4.3 Environmental Requirements Verification Analysis -- 2.5.4.4 Analysis Strings -- 2.5.5 Demonstration -- 2.5.5.1 Specialty Engineering Requirements -- 2.5.5.2 Interface Requirements -- 2.5.5.3 Environmental Influences -- 2.5.5.4 Software Verification by Demonstration -- 2.5.6 Examination -- 2.5.6.1 Software Applications -- 2.5.6.2 Hardware Too -- Chapter 2.6 Item Qualification Verification Reporting -- 2.6.1 Closing the Loop -- 2.6.2 Engineering Ethics -- 2.6.3 Report Structures -- 2.6.3.1 Integrated Verification Report Format -- 2.6.3.2 Independent Reports -- 2.6.3.3 Database Views -- 2.6.4 Report Content -- 2.6.5 Report Review, Approval, and Release -- 2.6.6 Report Capture and Availability -- 2.6.7 Report Source -- 2.6.7.1 Supplier Reporting and Access through the SDRL -- 2.6.7.2 Associate Reporting and Distribution -- Chapter 2.7 Item Qualification Verification Management and Audit -- 2.7.1 Setting the Management Stage -- 2.7.2 The Management Agent -- 2.7.3 Documentation Overview -- 2.7.4 Task Integration and Scheduling -- 2.7.5 Task Readiness Review and Task Authorization -- 2.7.6 Evaluation and Refinement of Evidence -- 2.7.6.1 In-House Review of In-House Verification Reports -- 2.7.6.2 In-House Review of Supplier Verification Reports -- 2.7.6.3 Associate Interaction and Interface Verification Resolution -- 2.7.6.4 IV&V Witnessing and Review -- 2.7.6.5 Customer Coordination -- 2.7.7 Staging the FCA -- 2.7.7.1 Single or Multiple Audits -- 2.7.7.2 Audit Preparation -- 2.7.7.2.1 Completion Criteria -- 2.7.7.2.2 Audit Agenda -- 2.7.7.2.3 Agenda Responsibilities Assignment -- 2.7.7.2.4 Audit Venues and Resources -- 2.7.7.2.5 The Presentation Materials -- 2.7.7.2.6 Audit Dry Run -- 2.7.7.2.7 Audit Data Reproduction -- 2.7.8 Presentation of the Qualification Results: The Audit -- 2.7.9 Postaudit Action -- 2.7.10 Information Resources.

Chapter 2.8 Item Qualification Closeout -- 2.8.1 System Verification Overview -- 2.8.2 System Verification Audit -- 2.8.2.1 System Audit Planning -- 2.8.2.2 The Audit -- 2.8.2.2.1 Item Verification Summaries and Integration -- 2.8.2.2.2 Item Audit Action Item Closeout Status -- 2.8.2.2.3 Interface Verification Audit -- 2.8.2.2.4 System Testing Results -- 2.8.3 Audit Follow-Up and Closeout -- Part 3 ITEM ACCEPTANCE VERIFICATION -- Chapter 3.1 Acceptance Test Planning Analysis -- 3.1.1 The Notion of Acceptance -- 3.1.2 Where Are the Requirements? -- 3.1.3 How Does Detail and Performance Specification Content Differ? -- 3.1.4 Conversion to Verification Requirements -- 3.1.5 Acceptance Test Planning, Procedures, and Results Data Collection -- 3.1.6 Associate Contractor Relationships -- 3.1.7 Manufacturing or Test and Evaluation Driven Acceptance Testing -- 3.1.8 Information Management -- 3.1.9 Coordination between Acceptance Testing and Special Test Equipment (STE) -- 3.1.10 Relationship between Technical Data and Acceptance -- 3.1.11 Postdelivery Testing Applications -- 3.1.12 Intercontinental Acceptance -- Chapter 3.2 Nontest Item Acceptance Methods Coordination -- 3.2.1 Organizational Responsibilities -- 3.2.2 The Coordination Task -- 3.2.3 Acceptance Task Matrix -- 3.2.4 Examination Cases -- 3.2.4.1 Quality Acceptance Examinations -- 3.2.4.2 Engineering Participation in Acceptance Examination -- 3.2.4.3 Software Acceptance Examination -- 3.2.5 Demonstration Cases -- 3.2.5.1 Logistics Demonstrations -- 3.2.5.2 Flight Demonstration -- 3.2.6 Analysis Cases -- Chapter 3.3 Product Acceptance Verification Reporting -- 3.3.1 Program Type -- 3.3.2 The Two Steps of Acceptance -- 3.3.3 Significant Differences -- 3.3.4 Reporting Structures -- 3.3.5 First Article Acceptance -- 3.3.6 Recurring Acceptance Verification.

Chapter 3.4 Product Verification Management and Audit.