For a long time, people tend to think that only the dynamic implementation software, whether some or the whole, is called software testing. As people tend to look like a QA department as a test sector, this view has its limitations. Of course, we can use such tests here as a narrow software test scope.
However, software testing is a general name of various tests including static testing. Software Review (Inspection) is the most important static test method. Among them, it can be divided into FTR (Formal Technique Review), Walkthrough and Peer Review. See http://beyondtest.Object.Net/hawkwang/interesting_field/index_ftr.
This way, we can treat all activities including software static and dynamic tests as a generalized software test.
For software testing and software quality assurance (SQA), we can simply distinguish:
Software testing is a quality control means that the object is "workpiece" in software products and development. Software quality assurance is to ensure the quality of the software development process, in order to meet the purpose of ensuring the quality of software products.
