Computer: Differentiate between software verification and validation. Show similarity between software verification and validation.

Software Verification	Software Validation
Are we building the system right?	Are we building the right system?
Verification is the process of evaluating products of a development phase to find out whether they meet the specified requirements.	Validation is the process of evaluating software at the end of the development process to determine whether software meets the customer expectations and requirements.
The objective of Verification is to make sure that the product being develop is as per the requirements and design specifications.	The objective of Validation is to make sure that the product actually meet up the user’s requirements, and check whether the specifications were correct in the first place.
Following activities are involved in Verification: Reviews, Meetings and Inspections.	Following activities are involved in Validation: Testing like black box testing, white box testing, gray box testing etc.
Verification is carried out by QA team to check whether implementation software is as per specification document or not.	Validation is carried out by testing team.
Execution of code is not comes underVerification.	Execution of code is comes under Validation.
Verification process explains whether the outputs are according to inputs or not.	Validation process describes whether the software is accepted by the user or not.
Verification is carried out before the Validation.	Validation activity is carried out just after the Verification.
Following items are evaluated duringVerification: Plans, Requirement Specifications, Design Specifications, Code, Test Cases etc,	Following item is evaluated during Validation: Actual product or Software under test.
Cost of errors caught in Verification is less than errors found in Validation.	Cost of errors caught in Validation is more than errors found in Verification.
It is basically manually checking the of documents and files like requirement specifications etc.	It is basically checking of developed program based on the requirement specifications documents & files.

In case of Software Testing, both Software Verificationa and Software Testing has following similarities:

1. Both verification and validation are essential and balancing to each other.
2. Different error filters are provided by each of them.
3. Both are used to find a defect in different ways, Verification is used to identify the errors in requirement specification and Validation is used to find the defects in the implemented software application.