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Quality Assurance
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Quality Control
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Quality assurance is a
planned and systematic set of activities necessary to provide adequate
confidence that products and services will conform to specified requirements
and meet user needs.
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Quality control is the
process by which product quality is compared with applicable standards,
and the action taken when nonconformance is detected. |
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Quality assurance is a
staff function, responsible for implementing the quality policy defined through
the development and continuous improvement of software development processes.
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Quality control is a line
function, and
the work is done within a process to ensure that the work product conforms to standards and requirements. |
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Quality assurance is an
activity that establishes and evaluates the processes that produce
products. |
Quality control
activities focus on identifying defects in the actual products produced.
These
activities begin at the start of the software development process with reviews of requirements, and continue until all application testing is complete. |
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4
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Quality assurance helps
establish processes.
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Quality control relates
to a specific product or service.
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5
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Quality assurance sets up
measurement programs to evaluate processes.
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Quality control verifies
whether specific attribute(s) are in, or are not in, a specific product or
service.
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6
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Quality assurance
identifies weaknesses in processes and improves them.
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Quality control
identifies defects for the primary purpose of correcting defects.
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Quality assurance is a
management responsibility
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Quality control is the
responsibility of the team/worker.
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Quality assurance is
concerned with all of the products that will ever be produced by a process.
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Quality control is
concerned with a specific product.
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Compiled from CSTE CBOK