A Method for Verification and Validation Certificate Management in Eclipse

During the course of software development, developers will employ several different verification and validation (V&V) practices with their software, but these efforts might not be recorded or maintained in an effective manner. Our research objective is to build a method which allows developers to track and maintain a persistent record of the V&V practices used during development and testing. The persistent record of the V&V practices are recorded as certificates which are automatically stored and maintained with the code and creates traceability from the V&V practices to the code We have created a system that aids developers in the management of certificates in the Eclipse development environment. Also, we are researching a method to utilize a parametric model in conjunction with this V&V information to estimate the defect density of that program.