At my company, I work in Integration. Our job is to conduct validation tests for software and scanner updates. From what I’ve experienced, I noticed that to conduct and produce a successful and sufficient validation, being as extensive and critical as appropriately possible is key. This means conducting extreme and a wide variety of trials that are repeatable is essential. In addition, noting all details that may be important to note throughout the process is equally important. Of course, conducting such trials would take a good amount of time which is why excluding steps that are not necessary for the purpose of the validation is almost as important as determining the necessary steps. It is also important to note that validation does not necessarily end at the end of the testing. Keeping track of bugs and findings that were not noticed during validation is crucial. Not only does it provide developers to make alterations to fix them, but it also helps improve on future validation protocols and tests so that not as many issues arise later on.