Additional Model Datasets and Results to Accelerate the Verification and Validation of RELAP-7

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RELAP-7 Software Verification and Validation Plan: Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) Update and Code Verification Strategy

“…Motivated by the RELAP-7 IV&V activity in 2016 [2] and the development progress of RELAP-7 (i.e., Phase II, see Table 1), RELAP-7 V&V team has recently begun the work for RELAP-7 (independent) verification. The main goal of this independent verification is to find any coding mistakes or subtle errors that may have been overlooked by code developers through the RELAP-7 development.…”

“…The primary goal of RELAP-7 SVVP is to identify all the requirements for RELAP-7, such as software design requirements, V&V test matrix, and measureable metric matrix that can quantify the code assessment activities (i.e., RTM), etc., and to establish the RELAP-7 assessment plan. If needed, the RELAP-7 development status can also be assessed with the test problems designated by the code assessment team [2]. The RELAP-7 IV&V activities, a major part of RELAP-7 assessment [3], should be in principle independent of the code development activities to ensure the quality of code [3].…”