Training in quality assurance and quality control usually covers all of the research and development stages of a project from requirement definition (what a company think the public wants in software) and coding to testing the finished product. Most companies who offer such training courses work according to International Quality Standards, which means that companies […]

Automatic tools are used to replace the manual software systems testing and involve detailed testing, often taken from the design documentation of the software. There are a number of different tools, all concerned with particular aspects of the testing process. These are:
• Functional – testing the general workings of the system and ensuring that all […]

Software systems need to be tested to ensure that the product and all of its features are functioning as they should. Most software testing teams work on products known as test cases to see how accurate the system is – the whole process has to be tightly monitored because if the testing itself has irregularities […]

Quality assurance actually comes before quality control. This is because quality assurance is the development of the processes of quality control, i.e. quality assurance determines just exactly what needs to be done in order to control the quality of a product before it is released. The processes are usually carried out in accordance with management […]

Many people use the terms quality control and quality assurance as if they were the same thing, but they are in effect, two different processes. This article will deal with quality control.
Checking software
Quality control actually involves the checking of software and related products before they go out to the client. This is the process that […]