A Framework for the Vamp;V Capability Assessment Focused on the Safety-Criticality

As the importance of verification and validation (V&V) activities is growing, the necessity of criticality-based assessment framework of V&V capability is increasing in the safety-critical software organizations. Although several maturity models for quality improvement, such as capability maturity model integration (CMMI) and testing maturity model (TMM), were developed following the industry\´s request, they have the limitation to support enough V&V assessment for the safety-critical software. In this paper, we propose the framework of V&V capability assessment in order to assist in performing "safety-criticality" assessment. To provide the essential V&V practices and the confidential capability level scheme, our framework has five V&V capability levels based on the integrity level scheme of IEEE Std.1012 and the V&V tasks that come from IEEE Std.1012, 7-4.3.2, 1228, RG 1.168, and CMMI