Editing Software verification (section)

== Broad scope and classification ==

A broad definition of verification makes it related to [[software testing]]. In that case, there are two fundamental approaches to verification:
* ''Dynamic verification'', also known as [[experimentation]], [[dynamic testing]] or, simply testing.  - This is good for finding faults ([[software bugs]]).
* ''Static verification'', also known as [[static code analysis|analysis]] or, [[static code analysis|static testing]] - This is useful for proving the [[Correctness (computer science)|correctness]] of a program. Although it may result in false positives when there are one or more conflicts between the process a software really does and what the static verification assumes it does.

Under the [[ACM Computing Classification System]], software verification topics appear under "Software and its engineering", within "Software creation", whereas [[Program verification]] also appears under [[Theory of computation]] under Semantics and reasoning, Program reasoning.