Definitions for "Software Quality Assurance"
A planned and systematic approach to the evaluation of the quality of and adherence to software product standards, processes and procedures. SQA includes the process of assuring that standards and procedures are established and are followed throughout the software acquisition life cycle.
SQA A formal approach to software development, automated regression testing, configuration management, versioning, profiling and release control with the goal of zero defects.
Quality assurance and Quality Control are very similar and often used interchangeably. Strictly speaking quality assurance is used to describe the process by which quality can be demonstrated to have been achieved, whereas quality control is about the processes to be put in place to achieve that quality.
The design and implementation of design feature s and procedure s to ensure that software requirements and specification s can be verified. [D01865] SU