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From: song@berault.ics.uci.edu (Xiping Song)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: SE Terms Confusion
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Date: 11 Apr 91 17:55:05 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.144028.20787@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sgf0z@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven Glenn Fox) writes:
>I have been fighting with some SE terms recently and
>am looking for some help in defining them and how
>they relate to each other.  The terms I am referring to are:
>
>Software Quality (& Software Quality Assurance)
>Software Risk
>Software Testing
>Verification and Validation
>Software Reliability
>
>To get the ball rolling, here are some of my observations:
>1. Software Reliability is one component of Software Quality.
>2..V&V is essentially synonymous to Software Testing.

 It is said that testing is a vehicle to validate software.