What is the difference between quality assurance and
quality control?

Answer Posted / panoramix

Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that the development and/or maintenance process is adequate to ensure a system will meet its objectives.

Quality Control: A set of activities designed to evaluate a developed work product.

Testing: The process of executing a system with the intent of finding defects.

In short QA is process oriented and QC is product oriented

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