Articles tagged with Quality Assurance

In a highly competitive market, rising interest in a new product or service can present gilded opportunities. Yet they are also opportunities easily squandered once that product or service fails to meet customer expectations and/or requirements. That is why quality assurance and quality control remain paramount for those well acquainted with the formula for success. Although quality assurance and quality control are both parts of the quality management process, they are decidedly not the same. In this article, we'll explore the purposes of quality assurance and control and thereby clarify the differences between them. Here we go!

“You have to create this application in the next 14 days”, a client told us during one of our recent projects. It might sound like an impossible mission but not for a well-organized team. The application was meant for patients in Nigeria looking to book a remote appointment with a doctor. 

“A Software Tester is a person who has to be told what to do. A Quality Assurance Engineer is a guy who usually says what I should do and when”, is what one of the Project Managers in my previous job has told me. This sentence kept coming back to me for a long time now and I can say that he wasn’t far from the truth.