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Difference between Data Validation and Data Verification

• Data plays a very vital role in software development and testing.

The data should be accurate to yield the desired result. Hence the
data should be checked thoroughly to ensure accuracy. Presently,
data is checked in two stages and they are data validation and data
verification.
• Important decisions are made on the analysis of a set of data,
inaccurate data will certainly lead to wrong decisions. Hence, data
validation and data verification are very significant.
 What is Data Validation
• Data validation is the process of comparing data with a set of rules
to find out if data is reasonable.
• Validation is about checking the input data to ensure it conforms
with the data requirements of the system to avoid data errors.
•  Data validation rules are used in data validation processes to
ensure the validity.
• The term validity of data mostly denotes the meaningfulness ,
correctness and modernity of the data.
 Data Validation 
• The validity of the input data should be ensured to
maintain system security.
• Besides, data validation rules, data integrity rules are
also used in data validation, especially for business
related applications. In this case, the rules should be
implemented at the beginning of the process or the
wrong validated data may give a negative impact.
• An example of this is a range check to avoid an input
number that is greater/smaller than the specified
range.
Data Validation types :
1-Format check: Checks data is in the right format, e.g. date in the
format dd/mm/yyyy.

2-Presence check: Checks that data has been entered into a field.

3-Range check: Checks that a value falls within the specified range,
e.g. grades can only range between A and E.

4-Type check: Ensures the correct data type has been entered, e.g.
age should be a number.
 What is Data Verification
• Data verification is the process of checking that the data entered
exactly matches the original source to find out if data is accurate.
• Data verification is a way of ensuring the user types in what he or
she intends, in other words, to make sure the user does not make a
mistake when inputting data.
• Data verification is very important as it ensures that the copy is
exactly the same as the original. Hence you can be confident in
using the copy, even when you lose the original data.
 Data Verification methods
• Data verification methods include:
1-Double entry - entering data twice
2-Proofreading data - someone checks the data
entered against the original document
3-Echo - system repeats the data being entered
•  For example of Data validation , when you validate a telephone number, you can
validate the input data, telephone numbers by ensuring that it contains a just a
specific number digits and in some case + or – signs.
• Or Checking the input to ensure that they are made up of “Valid” characters.

An example of Data verification :this includes double entry of data

(such as when creating a password or email) to prevent incorrect data
input. ‫ يتضمن ذلك اإلدخال المزدوج للبيانات (مثل عند إنشاء كلمة‬:‫مثال على التحقق من البيانات‬
‫مرور أو بريد إلكتروني) لمنع إدخال البيانات بشكل غير صحيح‬.

In total, Data Validation is done on the original document whereas data verification
is done on copies. This is the major difference between data validation and data
verification. ‫ يتم التحقق من صحة البيانات على المستند األصلي بينما يتم التحقق من‬، ‫في المجموع‬
‫ هذا هو الفرق الرئيسي بين التحقق من صحة البيانات والتحقق من‬.‫البيانات على نسخ‬
‫البيانات‬.
How Validation is Done ?
• The mechanical details of validating data are:
1-Determining what data to validate. Not all data needs to be
validated in all ways, but at a minimum each data element should
be checked for conformance to the target data type and domain
values/ranges, as necessary.
• Each data value for any item entered from the key board must be
validated.

2-Determining when to validate data. Validation checks are

usually applied when data moves from one data structure to
another, or entered from the key board.
2-‫بياناتعادةً ما ي>>تم> ت>>طبيقعملياتا>>لتحققمنا>>لصحة عندما ت>>نتقلا>>لبياناتمن‬
. ‫ت>>حديد وق>تا>>لتحققمنص>>حة ا>>ل‬
‫ أو ي>>تم> إدخا>>له>ا منل>>وحة ا>>لمفاتيح‬،‫ب>>نية ب>>ياناتإ>>لىأ>خرى‬.
3- Determining what to do with data that fails validation.  Once the
failed data is identified, decisions must be made on where to store
the data, who to notify in case of failure, and how the data will be
corrected and resubmitted into the data acquisition process.
All of these decisions are often treated by the development team.
 What is form validation?
• Go to any popular site with a registration form, and you will notice that they give
you feedback when you don't enter your data in the format they are expecting.
You'll get messages like:
• "This field is required" (you can't leave this field blank)
• "Please enter your phone number in the format xxx-xxxx" (it wants three
numbers followed by a dash, followed by four numbers)
• "Please enter a valid e-mail address" (the thing you've entered doesn't look like a
valid e-mail address)
• "Your password needs to be between 8 and 30 characters long, and contain one
uppercase letter, one symbol, and a number" (seriously?)
• This is called form validation — when you enter data, the web application
checks it to see if it is correct. If correct, the application allows the data to be
submitted to the server and (usually) saved in a database; if not, it gives you
error messages to explain what you've done wrong (provided you've done it
right).
• We want to make filling out web forms as painless
as possible, so why do we need to validate values
entered into forms before storing forms data into a
database? There are three main reasons:
• We want to get the right data, in the right
format — our applications won't work properly if
our user's data is stored in any old format they like,
or if they don't enter the correct information in the
correct places.
• We want to protect our users — if they
entered really easy passwords, or no password
at all, then malicious users could easily get
into their accounts and steal their data.
• We want to protect ourselves — there are
many ways that malicious users can misuse
unprotected forms to damage the application
they are part of.