User Acceptance Testing

A step-by-step guide

By (author) Brian Hambling, Pauline van Goethem

Publication date:

24 May 2013

Length of book:

226 pages

Publisher

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Dimensions:

244x170mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781780171678

Every information system brought into service in every type of organisation requires user acceptance testing. It is by far the most common activity carried out by non-IT specialists. This book is designed to be a hands-on manual for non-testing specialists to plan and carry out an effective acceptance test of an information system. It provides a structured and step-by-step approach to effective acceptance testing and identifies ways of making the process as simple and cost-effective as possible.

Introduction

1 The importance of UAT

2 Business requirements

3 Testing basics for UAT

4 The UAT team

5 UAT as transition

6 Preparing for UAT - Planning

7 Test design for UAT

8 Implementing the tests

9 Evaluating the system

10 Life after UAT

Appendices

As someone who started his career in testing by being told to leave the comfort of my data processing team to UAT a new system I know how hard it is to understand what is required of UA testers as to date there has been very little written or provided to help. This book comfortably fills the void that exists to help UA testers understand their role and the many tasks they have to undertake.