Quality Assurance Vs Quality Control

 

Quality Assurance:

• QA is process-oriented.
• QA is a proactive process.
• QA focuses on preventing defects.
• QA team works with the development team to produce quality software.
• QA ensures that approaches and techniques are implemented correctly (during software development).
• QA is responsible for SDLC.
• E.g., Verification

Quality Control:

• QC is product-oriented.
• QC is a reactive process.
• QC focuses on identifying/detecting the defects.
• QC comes into the picture after Quality Assurance.
• QC verifies that the developed project meets the defined quality standards.
• QC is responsible for STLC.
• E.g., Validation 

Quality Assurance	Quality Control
It is Managing tool	It is Corrective tool
It is Process-oriented.	It is Product-oriented
It is Proactive strategy	It is Reactive strategy
Prevention of defects	Detection of defects
Everyone’s responsibility.	Testing team’s responsibility
Performed in parallel with a project.	Performed after the final product is ready.
In this process WBT is included.	In this process BBT & GBT is included.