Quality Control is not Quality Assurance!!!

 

What is Quality?

Quality is meeting the requirement, expectation, and needs of the customer is free from the defects, lacks and substantial variants. There are standards needs to follow to satisfy the customer requirements.

What is Assurance?

Assurance is provided by organization management, it means giving a positive declaration on a product which obtains confidence for the outcome. It gives a security that the product will work without any glitches as per the expectations or requests.

 

What is Quality Assurance?

Quality Assurance is known as QA and focuses on preventing defect. Quality Assurance ensures that the approaches, techniques, methods and processes are designed for the projects are implemented correctly.

Quality assurance activities monitor and verify that the processes used to manage and create the deliverables have been followed and are operative.

Quality Assurance is a proactive process and is Prevention in nature. It recognizes flaws in the process. Quality Assurance has to complete before Quality Control.

What is Quality Control?

 

Quality Control is known as QC and focuses on identifying a defect. QC ensures that the approaches, techniques, methods and processes are designed in the project are following correctly. QC activities monitor and verify that the project deliverables meet the defined quality standards.

Quality Control is a reactive process and is detection in nature. It recognizes the defects. Quality Control has to complete after Quality Assurance.

Quality Assurance	Quality Control
It is a process which deliberates on providing assurance that quality request will be achieved.	QC is a process which deliberates on fulfilling the quality request.
A QA aim is to prevent the defect.	A QC aim is to identify and improve the defects.
QA is the technique of managing quality.	QC is a method to verify quality.
QA does not involve executing the program.	QC always involves executing the program.
All team members are responsible for QA.	Testing team is responsible for QC.
QA Example: Verification	QC Example: Validation.
QA means Planning for doing a process.	QC Means Action for executing the planned process.
Statistical Technique used on QA is known as Statistical Process Control (SPC.)	Statistical Technique used on QC is known as Statistical Quality Control (SPC.)
QA makes sure you are doing the right things.	QC makes sure the results of what you've done are what you expected.
QA Defines standards and methodologies to followed in order to meet the customer requirements.	QC ensures that the standards are followed while working on the product.
QA is the process to create the deliverables.	QC is the process to verify that deliverables.