User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Archives

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Best Practices – The Missing Link in Agile Practices

In Agile, developers, testers, and business analysts build a working product through a series of short iterations. At the end of each iteration, the product owner accepts the software as working or not, and the team moves forward to the next iteration. This kind of acceptance is not the same as the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) traditionally done at the end of the development effort. Unfortunately, traditional UAT does not fit neatly into Agile. This often represents a missing link that causes significant pain for those implementing Agile. In this blog, we discuss how to solve this problem.

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Agile Planning – The Importance of Agile Acceptance Criteria and Some Key Testing Tasks

When we start working with a client who is in the process of converting, or have converted to agile from waterfall, one of the most common questions is "What Do Testers Do in Agile?" The typical consulting answer is 'it depends'. As much as I hate to give that answer, it really does depend on what agile recipe you are using and the skills of your team.

Incorporating User Acceptance Testing into Agile – wowubuntu Webinar

Incorporating User Acceptance Testing into Agile

Listen in to this webinar with Philip Lew and Cheney Ma as they discuss the problems with User Acceptance Testing and how to implement in Agile when it appears there is no time as the sprints roll on. The trick is in your process and development of user stories combined with detailed yes/no acceptance criteria and tests. Also see how it's implemented in Jira with SynapseRT as Cheney gives a demonstration of complete traceability by associated epics with user stories, user stories with acceptance criteria and tests with defects. View this wowubuntu webinar to learn more >

Impact of GDPR on Software Testing

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As software testers we may think that GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has nothing to do with us. However, the keyword here is data. The problem is that to do our testing, we typically need data. You can’t do realistic end user acceptance testing without realistic data. Even before GDPR, getting good data for testing was a problem.

Especially with complex business rules whereby a location may dictate that certain rules are enacted, or when a transaction changes different data fields as it is processed, or when data becomes valid, invalid, […]

The Seven Samurai of Outsourcing and Why They Make Sense

Why outsource anything be it a service or production? Why not keep every aspect of the business in house? Two hundred years ago, that approach probably made sense. Today, in the modern economy, globalization and technological advancements have made outsourcing a strategic imperative for all businesses. One question on every CEO’s, VP’s, or even a Managers plate with skin in the game “What need or challenge to our business can be better handled through outsourcing?”This blog addresses seven important reasons why outsourcing software QA & testing makes sense....

Retail Industry Transformation and the Need for Retail Integration Testing

Adaptability to a changing environment is the key to survival, so said my father. More recently, brick and mortar has come under siege from the online retailers, What is dramatically different about today, is these online retailers are not really retailers, they are software companies, focused on retail. The backbone of today’s retail business model is ...