Glossary: V

Validation

The process of evaluating a product at the end of the development process to determine compliance with specified requirements.

Validation Rule

Custom development within SAP to ensure the system requires specific values to satisfy a specific business rule.

Variant

Saved data that can be used instead of hard-coded parameter values to run an SAP transaction, including any substituted by the submitter.

Verification

The process of evaluating the products of software development to determine their correctness or consistency with respect to the products' output.

Visual Brainstorming

The process of generating a variety of graphical alternatives to a visual design problem, such as generating thumbnail sketches for a screen layout or various alternatives of an icon to represent an abstract concept.

Volume Test

Testing the SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS) and supporting servers under heavy user loads and heavy repetition of certain actions to determine at what point the system's response time degrades or fails.