Verification

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Verification or verify may refer to:

General

• Verification and validation, 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
  • 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, confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity
• Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
• Verifiability (science), a scientific principle
• 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
• Verification and validation (software)
• Account verification, verifying that an account is owned by a real person or organization

Applications

• CAPTCHA, device to verify that a user of a website 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 (DOS command)
• GOV.UK Verify, identity assurance system in the United Kingdom

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

Circuit development

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

See also

• Validation (disambiguation)
• Verifiable computing
• Verification bias, a type of measurement bias
• Verified, a UN program against COVID-19-related misinformation
• Verifier (disambiguation)
• Measurement and verification