Applying an Instructional Design Process to Development of an Independent Verification and Validation Training Program

This paper describes the experience of developing Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) training programby applying an Instructional Design Process(IDP). This is not complete training to become an IV&V engineer, but job training to help solve common problems encountered in IV&V work. The instructional design process featured extensive frontend analysis before the design and implementation of the instruction, and also repeated revision of the instruction. The Dick and Carey model influenced the process used for developing the IV&V training program, which we called J-IDP. We conducted a field trial with the entry level of the training materials, but the resultwas not as positive as expected. Therefore, following J-IDP, we reviewed the materials and revised the training. Our experience with this training program suggests applying an instructional design process may solve some aspects of two common issues for software engineering education or training, the difficulty in identifying necessary abilities for software engineers and the difficulty in maintaining the training up-to-date.