InfoSENTRY Independent Verification and
Validation (IV&V) of A
Statewide Voter Registration System Oracle® Database Design
InfoSENTRY prepared an independent
verification and validation (IV&V) report on a vendor's efforts to develop a
technical design for a statewide voter registration database development
project. The IV&V report was part of an overall quality assurance (Q A)
effort in a statewide voter registration system implementation project.
InfoSENTRY had prepared the initial needs assessment and detailed requirements
analysis for the State Board of Elections’ statewide voter registration system.
The State Board subsequently contracted with a nationally known systems vendor
to develop the data standards and database design that would serve as the core
of the system.
Following approximately six months
of work with the vendor on the project, the State Board contracted with
InfoSENTRY to develop an independent verification and validation (IV&V)
analysis of the vendor’s data standards and database technical design. The
IV&V report analyzed the degree to which the vendor’s technical design for
an Oracle® database supported the conceptual design of the entire system that
had been agreed upon by both state and local election officials. The report
also examined the degree to which the proposed data standards and Oracle®
database design would support the business requirements identified in
InfoSENTRY’s previous studies for the State Board. It also examined the degree
to which the database design followed industry standards for relational
database management systems.
The report pointed out that the
vendor’s database design was a strong one, taking advantage of Oracle’s®
database management capabilities and providing flexibility for future data
design modifications. However, the report also pointed out that the vendor had
made certain assumptions about dataflows into the database that contradicted critical
parts of the overall system’s conceptual design and architecture. The
contradictions required the vendor to modify the planned dataflows from the
counties into the statewide, central database.
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