I’m that rare person, a native (even second generation) Californian, and grew up going to the Southern California beaches during the summers.  I earned my Red Cross lifeguarding certificates, and was a pretty good bodysurfer in my youth.  The greatest adrenaline rush I’ve ever had is catching a wave so perfectly that I was in the pipeline, not on a surfboard, but just my body half in, half out of the wave.  So, when Joe Costello opened up the inaugural Verification 3.0 Innovation Summit (V3IS) with analogies about waves and rip tides and bodysurfing, he was speaking both my languages, verification and oceans.  There’s a new verification wave coming, Joe said, building strength and speed, and we should be preparing to have a glorious ride to the shore.  The alternative, to not recognize this wave, is to be caught in the rip tide, the undercurrent, with dire consequences.

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Joe, and the more than a dozen speakers and companies that spoke and exhibited at V3IS (held last week in Silicon Valley), talked about the various driving factors and technical and business components of this next generation of verification, and also about the previous two generations of verification methodology and tools.

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