Validation and Verification

Service Description

Verification and validation are two terms that we often see within management system standards, however the two are often confused. Both are used as part of the process of checking, verification ensures that the subject meets its requirements or specifications, while validation checks that it is fit for purpose. In the simplest terms, verification could be expressed as ‘are we building it right?’, whereas validation is ‘did we build the right thing?’ Used together, verification and validation support one another to ensure that an organisation’s design and development processes result in products and services that not only satisfy all customer and other requirements, but that they also do what it says on the box.