The contractor shall conduct FQT of each CSCI on the target computer system or an equivalent system approved by the contracting agency. The contractor's FQT activities shall include stressing the software at the limits of its specified requirements. The contractor may conduct, as part of the FQT activity, testing of CSCIs integrated with other CSCIs or HWCIs that comprise the system.
4.3.1 Formal Qualification Test Planning. The contractor shall develop plans for conducting the formal qualification testing (FQT) activities required by this standard. These plans shall be documented in the Software Test Plan (STP). Following contracting agency approval of the STP, the contractor shall conduct the FQT activities in accordance with the STP. With the exception of scheduling information, updates to the STP shall be subject to contracting agency approval. The contractor shall identify in the STP the tests that involve stressing the software and those that involve integrating CSCIs with other configuration items.
4.3.2 Software test environment. The contractor shall establish a software test environment to perform the FQT effort. The software test environment shall comply with the security requirements of the contract. The contractor shall document and implement plans for the installation, test, configuration control, and maintenance of each item of the environment. Following installation, each item of the environment shall be tested to demonstrate that the item performs its intended function.
4.3.3 Independence in FQT activities. The organizations, functions, or persons responsible for fulfilling the FQT requirements of this standard shall have the resources, responsibility, authority, and freedom to ensure objective testing and to cause the initiation and verification of corrective action. The persons conducting FQT activities shall not be the persons who developed the software or are responsible for the software. This does not preclude members of the software engineering team from participating in FQT activities. Responsibility for the fulfillment of the FQT requirements shall be assigned and specified in the Software Development Plan (SDP).
4.3.4 Traceability of requirements to test cases. The contractor shall document the traceability of the requirements in the Software Requirements Specifications (SRSs) and Interface Requirements Specification (IRS) that are satisfied or partially satisfied by each test case identified in the Software Test Description (STD). The contractor shall document this traceability in the STD for each CSCI.
