Differences between Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and Software Quality Control (SQC) listed here are meant to discourage people from wrongfully using the term Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) interchangeably.
Differences
| Criteria | Software Quality Assurance (SQA) | Software Quality Control (SQC) |
| Definition | SQA is a set of activities for ensuring quality in software engineering processes (that ultimately result in quality in software products). The activities establish and evaluate the processes that produce products. | SQC is a set of activities for ensuring quality in software products. The activities focus on identifying defects in the actual products produced. |
| Focus | Process focused | Product focused |
| Orientation | Prevention oriented | Detection oriented |
| Breadth | Organization wide | Product/project specific |
| Scope | Relates to all products that will ever be created by a process | Relates to specific product |
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Last Updated on March 15, 2023 by STF