Select Work Products for Verification

Work products are selected based on their contribution to meeting project objectives and requirements, and to addressing project risks.

The work products to be verified may include those associated with maintenance, training, and support services. The work product requirements for verification are included with the verification methods. The verification methods address the technical approach to work product verification and the specific approaches that will be used to verify that specific work products meet their requirements.

Examples of verification methods include:

• Path coverage testing
• Load, stress, and performance testing
• Decision-table-based testing
• Functional-decomposition-based testing
• Test-case reuse
• Acceptance tests

Selection of the verification methods typically begins with involvement in the definition of product and product-component requirements to ensure that these requirements are verifiable. Re-verification should be addressed by the verification methods to ensure that rework performed on work products did not cause unintended defects.

• Identify work products for verification.
• Identify the requirements to be satisfied by each selected work
• Identify the verification methods that are available for use.
• Define the verification methods to be used for each selected work product.
• Submit for integration with the project plan the identification of work products to be verified, the requirements to be satisfied, and the methods to be used.