Software testing, verification and validation form the backbone of modern software quality assurance. These interrelated activities ensure that a software system accurately implements its intended ...

With any semiconductor device, presilicon design verification and postsilicon validation are critical to the functional and operational quality of the finished product. This situation holds especially ...

Verification and validation are two important steps in the creations of electronic systems and over time their roles, but how they play together is changing. In fact, today we are seeing a major ...

While often used intermixed, verification and validation are quite different procedures with different goals and different means to achieve those goals. No better way to clear up the confusion by ...

Explore the extensive testing policies one manufacturer uses to ensure the safest and most effective products reach the medical market. In today�s health-conscious culture, medical equipment is ...

A key focus of the IC design industry is to deliver first-pass silicon, which means finding most, if not all, of the potential defects before tape-out. This is extremely difficult due to increasing ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issues initial licenses for commercial nuclear power plants for 40 years of operation – a period originally based on economic and antitrust considerations, ...

The field of cell and gene therapy has experienced remarkable growth over the last ten years. Autologous and allogeneic therapies have extended their reach across various indications, such as oncology ...

Testing is one of the unsung steps in the engineering process. Talk to any product development engineer, and they will tell you how big of a milestone passing "V&V"—or verification and ...

UC Santa Cruz postdoc Adeel Akhtar working on a robotic system in the Hybrid Systems Lab. A variety of robots, including robot manipulators, 2- and 4-legged robots, and quadrotors, in a high-fidelity ...