@article{Oberhauser2023,
  author    = {Roy Oberhauser},
  title     = {VR-V\&V},
  series   = {International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements},
  volume    = {16},
  number    = {3 \& 4},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:944-opus4-32582},
  pages     = {103 -- 115},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {To build quality into a software (SW) system necessitates supporting quality-related lifecycle activities during the software development. In software engineering, software Verification and Validation (V\&V) processes constitute an inherent part of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) processes. A subset of the V\&V activities involved are: 1) bidirectional traceability analysis of requirements to design model elements, and 2) software testing. Yet the complex nature of large SW systems and the dependencies involved in both design models and testing present a challenge to current V\&V tools and methods regarding support for trace analysis. One of software’s essential challenges remains its invisibility, which also affects V\&V activities. This paper contributes VR-V\&V, a Virtual Reality (VR) solution concept towards supporting immersive V\&V activities. By visualizing requirements, models, and testing artifacts with dependencies and trace relations immersively, they are intuitively accessible to a larger stakeholder audience such as SQA personnel while supporting digital cognition. Our prototype realization shows the feasibility of supporting immersive bidirectional traceability as well as immersive software test coverage and analysis. The evaluation results are based on a case study demonstrating its capabilities, in particular traceability support was performed with ReqIF, ArchiMate models, test results, test coverage, and test source to test target dependencies.},
  language  = {en}
}