QA / QC

What is QA/QC?

Quality Assurance (QA) – a preventive process that is aimed at providing customers with the best product or service possible. QA is a systematic process of determining whether a product or service meets specified requirements.

Quality Control (QC), as part of the QA, is the process of tracking bugs at this stage of product development to further correct them

PDCA or Deming cycle is a defined cycle of QA . The phases of this cycle are:

In applying QA/QC concepts to software testing:

QA becomes SQA ( Software Quality Assurance).

QC becomes Software Testing.