What are the differences between Quality Control and Quality Assurance? - Software Quality Control

What are the differences between Quality Control and Quality Assurance?

Quality Assurance:

- Focused on planning, documentation and agreeing certain guidelines that ensures quality.

- The outcomes of Quality Assurance are quality plans, inspection plan, test plan.

- QA is to prevent defects from entering into solutions.

Quality Control:

- Includes the activities that are designed to determine the level of quality.

- QC is a reactive means which measures and monitors the quality

- Includes operational activities and techniques to meet the quality needs.

- QC involves in verifying the desired quality levels.