Software Verification and Validation Project Structure

6 February 2023

Course Aims: The overall aim of this course is to provide students with skills relevant
to carry out verification and validation of software systems. These are essential to
ensure that the resulting system satisfies its specification and that the system
implemented meets the expectations of the stakeholders.

Instructions to Students
a) The deliverables contribute to your final mark.

b) Please feel free to contact your lecturer if you have any questions or problems
regarding the project.

c) The project is to be completed in a group of 2.

d) Each phase of the project has a deadline. Please respect and deliver on time.

e) If students are found to have plagiarized, this is a crime, serious actions will be
taken (please read through the Course Outline).

f) Please note that each deliverable must be accompanied by a log sheet with
detailed activities and individual contributions.

Project Description
Please contact your Client as indicated in the Project Groupings. Make sure that you
are professional in your interaction with the client.

Advice to the Groups

• Before you start with your project, please brainstorm and have discussions in the
group to revise and have a common understanding of skills gained from previous
courses like Design Thinking, etc.

• NOTE: Please do a lot of research (online, library, etc.) and reading.

• Try to handle all project issues such as group members not participating.

Deliverables/Deadlines
 • Please respect the deadlines.

• All submissions are done on eLearning (no hard copies, nor email submissions will
be accepted).

• NOTE: Only ONE member from the group is uploading the project components.
Make sure that you agree on this, so that your member is aware of the deadline.

Deliverables/Deadlines
NOTE: Please respect the deadlines. (FOR EACH PHASE DELIVERABLE, PLEASE SUBMIT A
LOGSHEET FOR EACH ACTIVITY AND A PLAGIARISM REPORT)
Prepare scientific and technical documentation describing project activities.

Tasks Due Date

• Phase 1 ends
• Document your interactions and collaboration with
your peers and experts in the realisation of a test 31 March 2023
project and/or research activity.

• Document your evaluation of the concepts and • Phase 2 ends

principles of requirements analysis and specification,
28 April 2023
its tools and techniques, and methods for modelling
the software system.

• Phase 2 ends
• Document your software engineering principles
applied in different domains of different complexity. 16 May 2023

• Phase 2 ends
• Outline an innovative technical solution to an
application problem, which respects the constraints 2 June 2023
and requirements of technical, functional and
organisational.

• Develop automated strategies to handle the test,

verify and validate ideas before developing the
software to avoid wastage in order to achieve the
desired outcomes.