Establish and maintain the environment needed to support verification.

An environment must be established to enable verification to take place. The verification environment can be acquired, developed, reused, modified, or a combination of these, depending on the needs of the project.

The type of environment required will depend on the work products selected for verification and the verification methods used. A peer review may require little more than a package of materials, reviewers, and a room. A product test may require simulators, emulators, scenario generators, data reduction tools, environmental controls, and interfaces with other systems.

Typical Work Products

1.    Verification environment

Subpractices

1.    Identify verification environment requirements.

2.    Identify verification resources that are available for reuse and modification.

3.    Identify verification equipment and tools.

4.    Acquire verification support equipment and an environment, such as test equipment and software.