What is the basic difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control?

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Quality Assurance focuses on preventing defects while Quality Control focuses on identifying and correcting defects.

Quality Assurance is a proactive process that involves planning, designing, and implementing processes to prevent defects from occurring.
Quality Control is a reactive process that involves identifying defects and taking corrective action to eliminate them.
Quality Assurance is focused on the entire process, while Quality Control is focused on the end product.
Quality Assurance involves continuous improvement and monitoring of processes, while Quality Control involves testing and inspection of the final product.
Examples of Quality Assurance include process audits, training programs, and statistical process control. Examples of Quality Control include product testing, inspections, and quality checks.

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