Internal Quality Standards Flashcards
What is quality assurance?
A set of activities for ensuring qualit in the processes by which products are developed
What is quality control?
Ensuring quality in products. Focuses on identifying defects in the products produced.
Who is responsible for quality assurance?
The entire team
Who is responsible for quality control?
A specific team created to identify defects
Does quality assurance focus on the product or the process?
Process
Does quality control focus on the product or the process?
Product
Which of quality assurance and quality control is reactive and which is pro active?
QA is proactive as it prevents defects from being produced whereas QC is reactive as it reacts to defects after they are produced