  Validation is one of the software engineering disciplines that help build
quality into software. The major objective of software validation process is to
determine that the software performs its intended functions correctly and
provide information about its quality and reliability. This paper identifies
general measures for the specific goals and its specific practices of
Validation Process Area (PA) in Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
CMMI is developed by Software Engineering Institute (SEI). CMMI is a framework
for improvement and assessment of a software development process. CMMI needs a
measurement program that is practical. The method we used to define the
measures is to apply the Goal Question Metrics (GQM) paradigm to the specific
goals and its specific practices of Validation Process Area in CMMI.
