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Question by andrew
Submitted on 2/25/2004
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Describe the fundamental difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control?

Answer by kvs
Submitted on 3/3/2004
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quality assurance meant for developing,organising the best quality process. quality control meant for implementing the process developed by former team.

Answer by Gomes
Submitted on 3/15/2004
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QA is process related and QC is the actual testing of the software QA focuses on building in quality....and hence preventing defects. QC focuses on testing for quality...and hence detecting defects

Answer by Bhuvnesh
Submitted on 3/19/2004
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QA: Deals with process QC: Deals with product

Answer by jagan
Submitted on 3/24/2004
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QA:for entire life cycle QC:for testing part in SDLC

Answer by sico
Submitted on 4/7/2004
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Who really cares?

Answer by Arnesh
Submitted on 4/27/2004
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Quality Assurance makes sure you are doing the right things, the right way. Quality Control makes sure the results of what you've done are what you expected

Answer by Mr.Kinjal Somaiya
Submitted on 6/2/2004
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QA is preventive process. QC is corrective process.

Answer by googly
Submitted on 6/11/2004
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Quality Assurance is Process oriented Quality Control is Product oriented

Answer by kvs
Submitted on 6/14/2004
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Implementation of operational techniques that implement to secure the product with required specs is QC Exploring the above operational techniques is QA

Answer by srini
Submitted on 7/16/2004
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The intention is same...quality...

Answer by Tareq Awwad
Submitted on 8/4/2004
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Quality Contorl QC is responsible for measuring and testing the product Quality Assurance is responsible for designing the system, measures and tests used by the QC

Answer by Munikumar
Submitted on 10/7/2004
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QA : It is a process used to create a quality product. it is a process oriented QC: It is a process to measure the quality of product. it is product oriented.

Answer by Gursharan
Submitted on 12/5/2004
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Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that the development and/or maintenance process is adequate to ensure a system will meet its objectives. Testing: The process of executing a system with the intent of finding defects including test planning prior to the execution of the test cases

Answer by Ramesh
Submitted on 12/9/2004
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Quality Assurance is the process standardization Quality Control is the product oriented

Answer by Ranjith Nair
Submitted on 7/9/2005
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QA activities ensure that the process is defined and appropriate. Methodology and standards development are examples of QA activities. A QA review would focus on the process elements of a project - e.g., are requirements being defined at the proper level of detail QC activities focus on finding defects in specific deliverables - e.g., are the defined requirements the right requirements. Testing is one example of a QC activity, but there are others such as inspections.

Answer by San
Submitted on 8/18/2005
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!)QA is process related. Qc is process related/ 2)QA is a staff function2)QC is a line function. 3)QA is focused towards preventing the defects.Qc is focused on Correcting the defects. 4)Testing ad inspections are Qc activity.Review are QA activity

Answer by DH
Submitted on 12/15/2005
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Quality assurance is a management or oversight function; it deals with setting policy and running an administrative system of management controls that cover planning, implementation, and review of data collection activities and the use of data in decision making. Quality control is a technical function that includes all the scientific precautions, such as calibrations and duplications, that are needed to acquire data of known and adequate quality.

Answer by bibhu
Submitted on 2/10/2005
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QC-Measure the quality of the product. QA-Measure the quality of the process.

Answer by hth
Submitted on 2/14/2005
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qa is as govt and qc is as police

Answer by prasad
Submitted on 3/19/2005
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QA is monitoring and preventing process. and ensures that problems are found and dealt with. QA is process oriented QC is Corrective process and it is product oriented. QC is a actual testing process. ensures that outcome of the product is same as specifications, requirements and expectations.

Answer by bbpandey
Submitted on 4/18/2005
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qa is vaccination where as qc is cure.

Answer by ramubala
Submitted on 7/12/2005
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QC :measures the quality of software product QA:measures the process to create the quality product.

Answer by prateek
Submitted on 7/12/2005
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I don't give a bloody damn! to this......

Answer by Casya
Submitted on 8/25/2005
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Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that the development process will meet its objectives. Quality Control: A set of activities designed to evaluate a developed work product. Testing: The process of executing a system with the intent of finding defects.

Answer by vicky
Submitted on 8/27/2005
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the output of the QC is always input for the QA

Answer by SANDEEP SHARMA
Submitted on 8/30/2005
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As the name itself says that assuring the quality by making your process stable and applying error proofing. and the QC is to control the quality in a predecided limit to satisfy the customer

Answer by inam ul haq
Submitted on 9/2/2005
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Quality Assurance is process of development and facilitation for implementation while quality control is process of implementation of pre-determined standards

Answer by saritha.namineni
Submitted on 9/5/2005
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Quality Assurance is Auditing the process. Tht means process is properly followed or not. Quality Control is product oriented and Deffect deduction.

Answer by Alex Wong
Submitted on 9/12/2005
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QA is an elaborately designed process to be embedded into the manufacturing processes or the purchasing processes to ensure that right things are done in right ways. QC is the activity conducted to check the output of a process against the predefined specifications.

Answer by QC
Submitted on 10/26/2005
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QA - establishes the quality processes QC - controls if the process is followed easy.......

Answer by saadi
Submitted on 11/12/2005
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QA ensures that th system will meets to its specification so its process oriented. QC work is to evaluate the developed work product so its product oriented.

Answer by Nivethitha
Submitted on 11/16/2005
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QUALITY CONTROL measures the quality of a product QUALITY ASSURANCE measures the quality of processes used to create a quality product.

Answer by pep
Submitted on 12/1/2005
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QA, gives assurance that definiteness to the work output. QC, Checks befor it goes to the final product there by ensuring the quality of the work is met to the standards.

Answer by ic
Submitted on 12/7/2005
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Quality Assurance(QA) is the overall system for achieving quality goals. Quality Control(QC) is part of Quality Assurance and is the inspection/measuring activity you perform to assess the product.

Answer by sanju
Submitted on 1/18/2006
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it is very good

Answer by raj
Submitted on 1/26/2006
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QA is meant for detecting defects at origin & taking preventive action immediately,is process oriented QC is for taking preventive action,is product oriented

Answer by Husainfive
Submitted on 2/15/2006
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� Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that the development and/or maintenance process is adequate to ensure a system will meet its objectives. � Quality Control: A set of activities designed to evaluate a developed work product.