Timeline for Quality Assurance=inspections, reviews..?
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 15:45 | comment | added | John V | Yeah, it is pretty well known that this confusion is really widespread. I have been working for large companies (20 000+) and there was always a difference between a QA person and a tester. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 15:34 | comment | added | Dima | @user970696 This may be a useful definition, but it is by no means universal. I have worked as a tester and my official title was "QA". I have worked in companies which had QA departments which did testing. I have also worked in a company that has a "quality engineering" department, whose members write tests and maintain the test infrastructure. You can argue ad nauseam that all these companies are wrong in their use of terminology, but that's like arguing about tomato vs. tomahto. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 15:05 | comment | added | John V | Well, saying that testing is QA is plain wrong. It is related, it can be embraced under QC (as QC belongs under QA in the broader sense) but QA people do not test anything, they develop stategies, select standards to follow and do the audit. This might help you to see the crucial difference: sqa.net/softwarequalitycontrol.html | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 15:00 | comment | added | Dima | @user970696 Sorry, I still think this is splitting hairs. If you have a large company and you need to organize people into departments, this may be a valid way to do it. However, typically it is the developers (or their direct superiors) who set the standards and processes, and it is the QA who are in charge of testing. So far I have not heard of a software company with both a QA and a QC department. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 14:55 | comment | added | John V | I disagree. QA and QC are entirely different, QA makes sure you follow standards, processes and does not care about the actual outputs while QC just checks the outputs and checks whether or not they fulfill the requireemnt. Tester is not a QA person as testing is not QA - it mearues the quality, it does not assure it in any way. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 14:16 | history | answered | Dima | CC BY-SA 3.0 |