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Quality assurance. Quality assurance ( QA) is the term used in both manufacturing and service industries to describe the systematic efforts taken to assure that the product (s) delivered to customer (s) meet with the contractual and other agreed upon performance, design, reliability, and maintainability expectations of that customer.
Quality management. Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service consistently functions well. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement. [1] Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality, but also on the means to achieve it. Quality ...
ISO 9000 defines quality control as "a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements". [1] This approach places emphasis on three aspects (enshrined in standards such as ISO 9001): [2] [3] Elements such as quack, job management, defined and well managed processes, [4] [5] performance and integrity criteria, and ...
In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality – or high quality – has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something ( goods or services ); it is also defined as being suitable for the intended purpose (fitness for purpose) while satisfying customer expectations. Quality is a perceptual, conditional ...
QA/QC is the combination of quality assurance, the process or set of processes used to measure and assure the quality of a product, and quality control, the process of ensuring products and services meet consumer expectations. "Quality assurance" is process oriented and focuses on defect prevention, while "quality control" is product oriented ...
Data quality control is the process of controlling the usage of data for an application or a process. This process is performed both before and after a Data Quality Assurance (QA) process, which consists of discovery of data inconsistency and correction. Before: Restricts inputs.
Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards. It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, such as ISO/IEC 9126 (now superseded by ISO 25010), SPICE or CMMI .
Data integrity. Data integrity is the maintenance of, and the assurance of, data accuracy and consistency over its entire life-cycle. [1] It is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system that stores, processes, or retrieves data. The term is broad in scope and may have widely different meanings depending on the ...