Quality Assurance and Testing Jargon clarified in simple English with examples, by experts with years of experience in testing
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quality management
Coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to quality. Direction and control with regard to quality generally includes the establishment of the quality policy and quality objectives, quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement. [ISO 9000]
quality gate
A special milestone in a project. Quality gates are located between those phases of a project strongly depending on the outcome of a previous phase. A quality gate includes a formal check of the documents of the previous phase.
quality control
The operational techniques and activities, part of quality management, that are focused on fulfilling quality requirements. [after ISO 8402]
quality assurance
Part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled. [ISO 9000]
quality
The degree to which a component, system or process meets specified requirements and/or user/customer needs and expectations. [After IEEE 610]
qualification
The process of demonstrating the ability to fulfill specified requirements. Note the term qualified is used to designate the corresponding status. [ISO 9000]
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