Verification

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