Quality Assurance,Quality Control

Quality

Quality is defined as meeting the customer’s requirements and according to the standards
The best measure of Quality is given by FURPS

Functionality
Usability
Reliability
Performance
Scalability

Need of Quality

Quality is the important factor affecting an organization’s long term performance.
Quality improves productivity and competitiveness in any organization.

Quality Assurance

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 meets user needs.
It is process oriented.
Defect prevention based.
Throughout the Life Cycle.
It’s a management process.

Quality Control

Quality Control is the process by which product quality is compared with the applicable standards and the action taken when non conformance is detected.
It is product oriented
Defect detection based

Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control

QA vs. QC
•Quality Assurance makes sure that we are doing the right things, the right Way.	•Quality Control makes sure the results of what we’ve done are what we expected .
•QA focuses on building in quality and hence preventing defects.	•QC focuses on testing for quality and hence detecting defects.
•QA deals with process.	•QC deals with product.
•QA is for entire life cycle.	•QC is for testing part in SDLC.
• QA is preventive process.	•QC is corrective process.