How was it born and what concepts were adopted from the start?

From my study seems we took a lot from TQM

Which I feel might have worked then, but not applicable today

I find hardly any synergies between software and physical products quality measurement

Until recently you would hear people from testing talking about six sigma

What does that have to do with software testing?

The Quality gurus like Edward Deming’s had great findings

But could not be taken ‘as is’ for software testing without any enhancement or even changes

Here we would run into a distinction between Quality and Testing

And I’m not super certain if I want to go there

The question I am trying to figure out:

Is software testing and / or quality built on concepts suited for today’s software?