Verification, validation and input masks
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Verification, validation and input masks Verification is when a human, through proofreading, checks data. You can do this in several ways: · Proof read the work on the monitor or on a print out · Check work on a monitor/print out with a manual copy · Get somebody else to check the work for you. · Two people typing in the same data, and if the data is the same it is accepted for processing. The only drawback to this is the unlikely event that the two people actually make the same mistake, and the wrong data is inputted. The advantages of verification are that data is less likely to be inaccurate. For many companies such as banks, data being accurate is crucial. However, it does take time to check all the data, and in cases such as having two people entering the data, this is using another person that could be doing other more important...

