{"id":5054,"date":"2022-12-14T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tenthplanet.in\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:10:54","slug":"quality-assurance-and-quality-control-in-software-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/quality-assurance-and-quality-control-in-software-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality assurance and Quality control in software testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Quality Assurance is all about preventive activities, whereas Quality Control focuses on corrective processes. QA is the responsibility of everyone involved in the process, whereas QC is the domain of a specific team (of testers).<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Still, all these activities are deeply intertwined. Quality Control is a subset of QA. Software testing is a subset of Quality Control.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Some of the activities of QA<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"western\">Design Review<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Coding Standards<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Naming convention standards<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Peer code review<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Peer test<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Process Audit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Some of the activities of QC<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"western\">Test case preparation<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Unit Test, Integration test, UAT and Non-Functional Testing<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Bug fixing<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Product Audit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Some of the Quality Assurance(QA) and Quality Control(QA) Measures and Metrics<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"western\">Reliability is measured using mean time between failure and mean time to repair.<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Defect density<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Software size<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Software complexity<\/li>\n<li class=\"western\">Defect Removal Effectiveness<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quality Assurance is all about preventive activities, whereas Quality Control focuses on corrective processes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":5061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[1010,1011],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erp","tag-quality-assurance","tag-quality-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}