April 7, 2008...4:43 am

Quality Assurance Vs Quality Control

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Quality Assurance

Quality Control

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Quality Assurance is defined as Planned and systematic set of activities that are necessary to provide adequate confidence that Product and service will confirm to specified requirements.

Quality Control is defined as the Process by which an application under test is compared with applicable standards and necessary actions are taken when non- conformance is detected. I.e.   testing

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In other words QA can be defined as set of activities intended to detect, document, analyze and correct the process defects and to manage process changes

In other words QC can be defined as set of activities intended to detect, document, analyze and correct the product defects and to manage product changes

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Prevention based activity

Detection based activity

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Process oriented

Product oriented

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Measures the quality of processes used to create a quality product

Measures the quality of a product

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It’s managerial/service focus

It’s technical focus

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