Verification

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The word verification may refer to:

• Verification and validation, in engineering or quality management systems, it is the act of reviewing, inspecting or testing, in order to establish and document that a product, service or system meets regulatory or technical standards. By contrast, validation refers to meeting the needs of the intended end-user or customer.
• Verification (spaceflight), in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance
• Verification theory, philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified
• Third-party verification, use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer
• Authentication

[edit] Computing

• Verification and Validation (software)
• In applications:
  • CAPTCHA, device to verify that a user of a web-site is human to prevent automated abuse
  • File verification, checking the formal correctness or integrity of a file
  • Speech verification, checking of the correct speaking of given sentences
  • Verify (command), DOS command

• In software development:
  • Formal verification, mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms
  • Intelligent verification, automatically adapts the testbench to changes in RTL
  • Runtime verification, during execution
  • Software verification, An overview of techniques for verifying software

• In circuit development:
  • Functional verification of design of digital hardware
  • Analog verification, applies to analog or mixed-signal hardware
  • Physical verification, design of a circuit

• In systems engineering:
  • Testing to confirm that the system, subsystem or component meets documented requirements or specifications levied on the design. In ICT uses, it is used to check whether data entered meets that which is required to continue, for example - the user needs to be 18 years old to watch a video posted on the internet, when requested to enter his or her date of birth, the date of birth will have to be equal or greater to that which means they are 18 before being allowed to continue, if a date of birth entered is lower than that of an 18 year old they will be disallowed from watching the video.

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