Quality Management Vs Quality Control

Quality Management Vs Quality Control

In QA world, this is very confusing argument, that what kind of defects come in Quality Management and what's come in Quality Control.

In this post i'm trying to explain what Quality Management and Quality Control is. In QA world there are two QA activities one is Quality Management and second one is Quality Control.

Let’s see what Quality Management is: Quality Management is those activities which are related to documents. Or put in this way, those QA activity's where you do not need to write test cases and test script, but you have to review documents, those activities are like, Design Review, Architecture Review, Data Architecture Review, Deployment Checklist Review, Requirements Review, SQAP review, Support Documentation Review, Test Plan Review. If you found any defects while reviewing these documents, then you have to put those defects in Quality Management- QA activity in your QA software, like Mercury Quality Center.

And Quality Control are those activities which do not fit in Quality Management, Or those which are testable like Data, Configuration, Functional, Gui , Integration, Navigation, Performance, Security, Translation, Usability. Any defects found under these activities are logged under Quality Control QA activities.