QA (Quality assurance)
The Chinese meaning is "quality assurance", which is defined in iso8402:1994 as "all planned and systematic activities that are implemented in the quality management system and confirmed as required in order to provide sufficient trust to demonstrate that the entity can meet the quality requirements". Some ISO9000 organizations will set up such a department or post, responsible for the quality assurance function required by the ISO9000 standard, it is concerned about the entire production process, whether it conforms to the standards and norms , the personnel who are called QA personnel.
Qc[quality Control)
Chinese meaning is "quality control", in order to ensure and improve product quality and quality of work carried out by the quality of investigation, research, organization, coordination, control, information feedback, improve until the general term of the work. In order to ensure the product process or service quality, we must take a series of activities, technology, organization, management, etc., which belong to the category of quality control, it is concerned with a series of methods to detect whether the product meets the standard . Often said software Testers are actually QC this post.
The difference between QA and QC