Verify or verification may refer to:
General
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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
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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, confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity
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Forecast verification
Forecast verification is a subfield of the climate, atmospheric and ocean sciences dealing with validating, verifying and determining the predictive power of prognostic model forecasts. Because of the complexity of these models, forecast verif ...
, 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 the philosophical doctrine which maintains that only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cogniti ...
, 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)
Applications
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CAPTCHA, 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 intended algorithms underlying a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal met ...
, 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 whose goal is to assure that software fully satisfies all the expected requirements.
Broad scope and classification
A broad definition of verification makes it equivalent to software t ...
, an overview of techniques for verifying software
Circuit development
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Hardware verification
Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools work together ...
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Functional verification
In electronic design automation, functional verification is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. Functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is ...
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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Verifier (disambiguation)
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Measurement and Verification Measurement and Verification (M&V) is the term given to the process for quantifying savings delivered by an Energy Conservation Measure (ECM), as well as the sub-sector of the energy industry involved with this practice.
Measurement and verificatio ...
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