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The principal aim of testing is to detect faults so that they can be removed before the product is made available to customers. It is often referred to as Quality Control.
The British Standards Institution, in their standard BS7925-1, define testing as:
The process of exercising software to verify that it satisfies specified requirements and to detect faults; the measurement of software quality.
Faults in software are made for a variety of reasons, from misinterpreting the requirements through to simple typing mistakes. It is the role of software testing to reduce those faults by identifying the failures.
Quality Assurance consists of the the processes and methods used to ensure quality. This may include processes such as reviewing requirements documents, source code control, change management, configuration management and of course, software testing.
