Verification, Validation and Testing in Software Engineering

Validation and verification is an area of software engineering that has been around since the early stages of program development, especially one of its more known areas: testing. Testing, the dynamic side of validation and verification (V&V), has been complemented with other, more formal techniques of software engineering, and so the static verification – traditional in formal methods – has been joined by model checking and other techniques. Verification, Validation and Testing in Software Engineering offers thorough coverage of many valuable formal and semiformal techniques of V&V. It explores, depicts, and provides examples of different applications in V&V that produce many areas of software development – including real-time applications – where V&V techniques are required.

Aristides Dasso is an associate professor, at the Departmento de Informática at Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina. He has published more than fifty articles in international conferences and journals and has presented several papers in international conferences on software engineering and information systems. He has studied political science in Argentina and computer science in Argentina and France, and has been a fellow at the International Institute for Software Technologies of the United Nations University, Macao. He is a member of both ACM and IEEE.

Ana Funes is an assistant professor at the Departamento de Informática at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina. She holds a Master degree in software engineering from that university. She is a researcher at the Software Engineering Group of the Universidad Nacional de San Luis.