Virtual validation of software systems
AssigneesAngela Bazigos, Christopher Hanson
InventorsAngela Bazigos, Christopher Hanson, Richard Lumkin
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Abstract
A method for building and verifying and validating a software system that is used for regulated industry software related activities, such as FDA trials, field trials, biomedical data gathering, and similar efforts includes building the application into a virtual appliance using, for example, Vmware. The application and the supporting software are encapsulated in a single virtual file to create a virtual appliance that is independent of hardware and dependent only on virtual appliance support.
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A method for constructing and validating a software system for a data intensive activity, including the steps of:
- creating a user requirements specification for the software;
- developing a project specific validation plan for the software based on the user requirements specification;
- developing a functional specification based on the user requirements specification;
- selecting software applications to carry out the functional specification and selecting virtual machine support software to run the selected software applications;
- building the software system by combining said software applications and said virtual appliance support software to form a virtual appliance;
- validating said software system by validating said virtual appliance.
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