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What is Verification?
The verifying process includes checking documents, design, code, and program.
What is Validation?
Validation is a dynamic mechanism of Software testing and validates the actual product.
Verification vs Validation: Key Difference
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Validation |
- The verifying process includes checking documents, design, code, and program
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- It is a dynamic mechanism of testing and validating the actual product
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- It does not involve executing the code
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- It always involves executing the code
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- Verification uses methods like reviews, walkthroughs, inspections, and desk- checking etc.
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- It uses methods like Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, and non-functional testing
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- Whether the software conforms to specification is checked
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- It checks whether the software meets the requirements and expectations of a customer
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- It finds bugs early in the development cycle
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- It can find bugs that the verification process can not catch
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- Target is application and software architecture, specification, complete design, high level, and database design etc.
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- Target is an actual product
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- QA team does verification and make sure that the software is as per the requirement in the SRS document.
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- With the involvement of testing team validation is executed on software code.
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- It comes before validation
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- It comes after verification
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Example of verification and validation
- In Software Engineering, consider the following specification
A clickable button with name Submet
- Verification would check the design doc and correcting the spelling mistake.
- Otherwise, the development team will create a button like
A clickable button with name Submit
- Once the code is ready, Validation is done. A Validation test found –
- Owing to Validation testing, the development team will make the submit button clickable
