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What is Quality Assurance?

 , January 13, 2017
Quality assurance is the process of preventing quality failures.

Definitions

  1. The day-to-day operational process of achieving quality objectives.
  2. The practice of managing quality in the development, production and delivery of products and services.
  3. A comprehensive approach to quality that goes beyond detecting non-conformances by addressing the causes of quality issues such as designs, inputs, processes, systems and human factors.
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