QA is not just Testing

One thing that tends to get me riled up is when people who strictly test things say that they do quality assurance. This is something however that has always occoured and will continue because they actually believe that by testing the software they are assuring the quality of it. Actually, what they are doing has nothing to do with assurance, but more with control. Which is not to say that testing could not be under the umbrella of QA, but it is not the entirety of it.