The document introduces software verification and validation (V&V) and discusses key techniques used in the V&V process, including inspections, static analysis, and the Cleanroom development process. It defines verification as ensuring a product is built correctly and validation as ensuring the right product is built. V&V aims to find defects and assess usability, applying techniques from requirements through deployment. Inspections and static analysis are forms of static verification, while testing is dynamic verification. The Cleanroom process uses formal specification, incremental development, and statistical testing with reliability models.