quality assurance

systematic process of verifying whether a product, software, or service meets specified requirements and quality standards to prevent defects and ensure customer satisfaction
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Summary

quality assurance is an activity[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of activity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,265 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: process management[3], risk management[4], function[5]
  • Part of: new product development[6], quality management[7], quality engineering[8]
  • Commons category: Quality assurance[9]
  • Has part(s): quality management system[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Quality assurance[11]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C15381[12]
  • Uses: requirements engineering[13]
  • Practiced by: quality assurance specialist[14]
  • Has goal: improvement[15], creation[16], prevention[17]

Why It Matters

quality assurance has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basisklassifikation → 52.71
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', '
    Wikidata description → systematic process of verifying whether a product, software, or service meets sp
    Store medisinske leksikon id → kvalitetssikring, kvalitetssikring_-_i_helsetjenesten
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Store medisinske leksikon id, SML ID kvalitetssikring deprecated (now SML kvalitetssikring_-_i_helsetjenesten), SML ID kvalitetssikring_-_i_he"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Has parts → —
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → process management, risk management, function
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 2725, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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