quality assurance

noun

: a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met

Examples of quality assurance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Potential Roles: Human resources management, finance management, customer service management, or quality assurance management. Ebony Flake, Essence, 24 Mar. 2024 The benefits from early access for smaller games like Astral Ascent can be even greater because quality assurance — the process in which technical bugs are identified and fixed — is a difficult and expensive part of game development. George Yang, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024 Inside Google today, the privacy and legal review is the only step that a team cannot remove or mark as optional in the company’s main internal tracking system for project launches, commonly referred to as Ariane, the former employees say—unlike for security assessments or quality assurance. Paresh Dave, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023 And without that information, that raises concerns about quality assurance, quality management, safety management systems within Boeing. Joel Rose, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024 For example, a supplier of endoscopy visualization technology faced challenges with their manual quality assurance process, leading to time-consuming and inconsistent results. Stoyan Mitov, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 On its part, Boeing is taking immediate actions to strengthen quality assurance and controls across its factories, the manufacturer's CEO Stan Deal said in a message to employees. Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2024 Complex projects that involve multiple teams and lots of interdependent tasks can be some of the riskiest—a new product development and launch, a company-wide quality assurance implementation or an ISO certification, for example. Yaniv Shor, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 In the first season of the dystopian series, Knudsen played Theresa Cullen, Westworld’s head of quality assurance. Marta Balaga, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of quality assurance was in 1973

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“Quality assurance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quality%20assurance. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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quality assurance

noun
quality as·​sur·​ance -ə-ˈshu̇r-ən(t)s How to pronounce quality assurance (audio)
: a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met

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