What is the difference between Quality Assurance and UAT?

What is Quality Assurance (QA)?

It is the practice of monitoring all software methods, activities and engineering processes used in a project to ensure that the software quality is in line with the defined quality standards. The software development process is improvised by enhancing its effectiveness through the quality standards that are defined for the software product or application. Quality assurance ensures that the project goals are met by quality requirements. Both business and technology aspects are taken into perspective to define the quality.

What is User Acceptance Testing (UAT)?

It is a testing method where an end-user is given the responsibility to test the product or application in a real-time environment. It is conducted at the final phase of the software development process, just before the product is going to be released. This testing method validates the product based on its value creation in the marketplace. User feedback is another important aspect of this testing method. Feedback from users about the product helps the team to make strategic decisions in order to further enhance the quality of the software product or application.

Difference between QA and UAT:

Quality Assurance (QA)	User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
It ensures that the quality of a product or application can meet business and client requirements	It ensures that the product is accepted by users based on providing certain inputs, opinions and feedback of the product
Quality assurance activities are carried out before the implementation of user acceptance testing	User acceptance testing is performed after the quality assurance activities. QA is also performed during and after the UAT process and the quality has to be measured till the end of the development process
QA Analysts are the ones who are responsible to carry out the QA related activities	Customers, end-users or stakeholders are responsible to carry out user acceptance testing activities.
The development team can expect a fast feedback (quality) cycle for new features from the QA team	The client team can expect a new version of the software product or application from UAT team

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