Archive for the ‘Quality Assurance’ Category
Definition of Errors, Defects, Bugs, Failures and Problems.
All of these terms are often used interchangeably by QA Persons and they don’t feel any difference among those terms. I have a book “Managing the Software Process” witten by Watts S. Humphrey, In this book he precisely defines the distinction among Errors, Defects, Bugs, Failures and Problems. Read the rest of this entry »
Difference between QA and QC
The following statements help differentiate Quality Control (QC) from Quality Assurance (QA):
Quality Control (QC):
- QC relates to a specific product or service.
- QC verifies whether particular attributes exist, or do not exist, in a specific product or service.
- QC identifies defects for the primary purpose of correcting defects.
- QC is the responsibility of the worker. Read the rest of this entry »