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USER ACCEPTANCE TESTING

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What is User Acceptance Testing?


User acceptance testing, a testing methodology where the clients/end users involved in testing the
product to validate the product against their requirements. It is performed at client location at
developer's site.

For industry such as medicine or aviation industry, contract and regulatory compliance testing and
operational acceptance testing is also carried out as part of user acceptance testing.

UAT is context dependent and the UAT plans are prepared based on the requirements and NOT
mandatory to execute all kinds of user acceptance tests and even coordinated and contributed by
testing team.

User Acceptance Testing - In SDLC


The following diagram explains the fitment of user acceptance testing in the software
development life cycle:

The acceptance test cases are executed against the test data or using an acceptance test script
and then the results are compared with the expected ones.

Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance criteria are defined on the basis of the following attributes:

Functional Correctness and Completeness

Data Integrity

Data Conversion

Usability

Performance

Timeliness

Confidentiality and Availability


Installability and Upgradability

Scalability

Documentation

Acceptance Test Plan - Attributes


The acceptance test activities are carried out in phases. Firstly the basic tests are executed and if
the test results are satisfactory then the execution of more complex scenarios are carried out.

The Acceptance test plan has the following attributes

Introduction

Acceptance Test Category

operation Environment

Test case ID

Test Title

Test Objective

Test Procedure

Test Schedule

Resources

The acceptance test activities are designed to reach at one of the conclusions :

1. Accept the system as delivered

2. Accept the system after the requested modifications have been made

3. Do not accept the system

Acceptance Test Report - Attributes


The Acceptance test Report has the following attributes:

Report Identifier

Summary of Results

Variations

Recommendations

Summary of To-DO List

Approval Decision

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