Verification or verify may refer to:
General
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Verification and validation
Verification and validation (also abbreviated as V&V) are independent procedures that are used together for checking that a product, service, or system meets requirements and specification (technical standard), specifications and that it fulf ...
, in engineering or quality management systems, 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
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Verification (spaceflight), in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance
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Verification theory, philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified
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Third-party verification, use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer
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Authentication
Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an Logical assertion, assertion, such as the Digital identity, identity of a computer system user. In contrast with iden ...
, confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity
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Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
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Verifiability (science)
Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is a doctrine in philosophy which asserts that a statement is meaningful only if it is either empirically verifiable (can be confirmed through the ...
, a scientific principle
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Verification (audit), an auditing process
Computing
* Punched card verification, a data entry step performed after keypunching on a separate, keyboard-equipped machine, such as the
IBM 056 Verifier
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Verification and validation (software)
In software project management, software testing, and software engineering, verification and validation is the process of checking that a software engineer system meets specifications and requirements so that it fulfills its intended purpose. It ...
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Account verification, verifying that an account is owned by a real person or organization
Applications
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CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) ( ) is a type of challenge–response authentication, challenge–response turing test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to de ...
, device to verify that a user of a website is human, to prevent automated abuse
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File verification, checking the formal correctness or integrity of a file
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Speech verification, checking of the correct speaking of given sentences
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VERIFY (DOS command)
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GOV.UK Verify, identity assurance system in the United Kingdom
Software development
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Formal verification
In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal methods of mathematics.
Formal ver ...
, mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms
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Intelligent verification, automatically adapts the testbench to changes in RTL
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Runtime verification Runtime verification is a computing system analysis and execution approach based on extracting information from a running system and using it to detect and possibly react to observed behaviors satisfying or violating certain properties. Some very p ...
, during execution
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Software verification Software verification is a discipline of software engineering, programming languages, and theory of computation whose goal is to assure that software satisfies the expected requirements.
Broad scope and classification
A broad definition of verif ...
, an overview of techniques for verifying software
Circuit development
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Hardware verification
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Functional verification of design of digital hardware
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Analog verification, applies to analog or mixed-signal hardware
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Physical verification, design of a circuit
See also
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Validation (disambiguation)
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Verifiable computing
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Verification bias, a type of measurement bias
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Verified, a UN program against COVID-19-related misinformation
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Verifier (disambiguation)
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Measurement and verification
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