Independent Validation & Verification

Providenz’s approach to independent verification and validation (IV&V) is independent of underlying application development efforts yet attains operational benefits through tight integration into all phases of the life cycle, including continuous process improvement initiatives.

Our approach runs in parallel with the systems development life cycle, enabling early detection of anomalies and corrections with minimal changes and at the lowest possible cost. IV&V is a key element in prudent development and integration processes. It is a valuable tool for revalidating results and ensuring due diligence and is a rigorous, disciplined process encompassing far more than formal testing or traditional quality assurance.

Providenz offers a proven methodology for conducting IV&V that helps ensure systems deliver desired business benefits within budget and on schedule. Providenz’s demonstrated technical capabilities provide consistent, reliable, readily available support, which ensures the refinement of existing application software while pursuing the development and implementation of new software and complex business applications. Providenz’s highly successful process is an integration of key elements: testing and assessment, requirements engineering, configuration management, and quality assurance and metrics.

The integration of these elements is the foundation of a process that monitors the system development life cycle from inception to full operation and ensures that business applications are ready for deployment. Providenz’s IV&V approach provides support to ensure that configuration control and change management policies and procedures are applied to the AIS and conforms to the approved plans and procedures. Providenz documents progress throughout the development life cycle, ensuring that all changes are documented, and that up-to-date information is always available.

Automated Tools

Providenz has certified architects and analysts with expert knowledge and experience in selecting, implementing, and using a wide range of automated tools that bring added value to our IV&V approach. Providenz has the knowledge, demonstrated experience, IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, and RequisitePro, Mercury Test Director, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional, HP ALM, SoapUI, Selenium, Apache Jmeter, and Katalon.

Our in-depth knowledge and experience with these tools enable us to develop, customize, and manage interfaces between them and other commercial off-the-shelf applications while continually providing hands-on user assistance and technical, operational, and upgrade support.