Verification

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Verify or 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.
• 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
• Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model

Computing

• Verification and validation (software)

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 (DOS command)

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

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

Systems engineering

• Testing to confirm that the system, subsystem, or component meets documented requirements or specifications levied on the design