How does quality assurance assure quality?

We use the term “quality assurance” a lot.

Google gives 2 definitions for the word “assure,” and the second one seems relevant to software development:

make (something) certain to happen

QA typically runs tests and inspects things.

How does QA make “make [quality] certain to happen?”


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