The Role of Verification and Validation in System Development Life Cycle

Abstract

Software is build to satisfy needs of specific client or business. In today's competitive world of software, software developers have to deliver quality product on time. Quality of software is very essential in software development and for this developer has to verify that the software is functioning properly and validate the product as per client requirement. Importance of Verification and Validation in software development is to maintain software quality. Verification and Validation techniques are applied to all phases of System Development Life Cycle. This paper presents verification and validation activities in the software development process, how quality of software can be improve, verification and validation objective and lifecycle usage.