Infusing and Selecting V&V Activities

The evolving nature of sofiare development poses a continuing series of challenges for V& V. In response, the V&V community selectively adapts the use of existing V& V activities, and introduces new and improved ones. These responses are instances of the more general issues of technology selection and technology infusion. These are recurring challenges at JPL, where novel spacecraft applications demand novel adaptations of existing technologies, and infusion of new ones. JPL has been developing and applying a process speci$cally to assist in the planning for these. This paper shows how this same process has the capacity to aid in planning the selection and infusion of V& V activities.