In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of intended algorithms underlying a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal methods of mathematics. Explanation Software testing alone can't prove that a system doesn't contain any defects. Neither can it prove that it does have a certain property. Only the process of formal verification can prove that a system doesn't have a certain… (More on Verifiable)