Quality Assurance vs Quality Control

Quality assurance is a systematic process that ensures a product or service meets its specific standard and necessities. This establishes and maintains requirements for developing a manifacturing safe and reliable products. Quality Control on the other hand, is a reactive process that is involved in identifying and resolving the issues that may arise in the final product.

To define these terms more simpler, QA is about testing the product at the end of the production cycle to find errors and defects, while QC delves into inspection and testing these products at each production stages until standards are met, and errors are corrected.