We describe a new verification and validation (V\&V) approach based on comparing actual system behavior in the form of captured goal-annotated event traces with expected behavior expressed by requirements scenarios that are tied to system requirements goals.  We believe our V&V approach can leverage requirements engineering work in a fruitful manner that leads to improved software quality because it offers six potential benefits in the form of improved capabilities for: (1) higher-yield testing, (2) distinguishing false positives, (3) defining test coverage metrics, (4) detecting domain-analysis errors, (5) validating top-level requirements, and (6) efficiently controlling the degree of retesting.  We use examples to explain how our method can attain these six potential benefits.  If our goal/requirements-based V\&V techniques can succeed in realizing these six potential benefits, we believe they will lead to improved requirements practices that, in turn, can successfully attain improved software quality.