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Validate

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈvælɪdeɪt/verbCore term

In software engineering, validate means: To check with evidence, such as user tests, data or experiments, that an idea, assumption or solution is actually right before investing more in it.

In Turkish: doğrulamak, sağlamasını yapmak, teyit etmek

How it is used

Very common in startups and discovery work: validate an idea, validate demand, validate the problem. The noun is validation. Be careful: talking to three friends who like your idea is not validation.

Example sentences

  1. Before building the integration, let's validate that customers will actually pay for it.

  2. We validated the problem in interviews, but we haven't validated the solution yet.

Common collocations

  • validate an idea
  • validate demand
  • validate assumptions
  • validate the problem
  • customer validation
  • hypothesisA specific, testable statement about what you expect to happen and why, written down before an experiment or analysis starts.
  • MVPShort for minimum viable product: the simplest version of a product that can be released to real users to learn whether the idea is worth building further.
  • prototypeA quick, rough version of a game or feature made to test whether an idea is fun or works, before the team spends time on final art and polish.
  • A/B testAn experiment in which users are randomly split into two groups that see different versions of something, so you can measure which version performs better.

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