Software Quality Assurance: Software QA includes the whole software development PROCESS — it is made to be sure that any agreed-up on procedures and standards are followed, improving and monitoring the process, and conviction of the fact, that problems are found and dealt with. It focuses on ‘prevention’.

Nowadays, most of individuals and institutions find it difficult to distinguish between quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and testing. Though there is a close connection between these processes, their conceptions differ. Since all of them are needed for efficient risk management in the area of advancing and operating computer programs, identifying distinctions is of a great importance for the software directors. Their definitions are given below: