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Tag Archives: acceptance testing
Scalable V-Model: An Illustrative Tool for Crafting a Test Approach
I recommend a testing approach that is risk-driven, leverages agile principles, encourages early validation and verification activities, reports progress with practical metrics, and is controlled through hand-offs and acceptance criteria overlaid on the development cycle via a scalable “V-model” (whether … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, early testing, software testing, v-model
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UAT as a Lean Startup
User acceptance testing (UAT) – that misunderstood human activity that is squeezed from front to back by late delivery and set-in-stone go-live dates – is an opportunity to use lean tactics. The user acceptance team is a cross-functional team. An … Continue reading
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Working with Business Testers
From Nancy Kelln’s presentation at STPCon, “Leading Business Testers”, business testers: are not testers do not want to be testers require guidance and support require their expectations to be managed may be working part-time on the project and all of … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, people, process improvement, software testing, test management, uat
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Feature Advocacy
Take everything you know about bug advocacy – the art of maximizing the likelihood that any given bug is fixed as per its impact on those who care about it – and direct it towards feature advocacy – the art … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, bug tracking, defect management, prioritization, process improvement, quality gates, release management, requirements, software testing, value add
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Checklists, Refactored
Guided exploratory testing is using checklists to support and guide the exploration. In addition, it also means using those checklists as the backbone for communicating to other stakeholders on the project/initiative. I’ve started to advocate the term ‘testlists’ to replace … Continue reading
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Play Me a Song
My sister was visiting us a few weeks ago so that she might meet her new niece in person. She lives about 1500km away from us, so it’s just far enough away to make these sorts of visits infrequent. I … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, high performance teams, people, process improvement, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, uat
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User Acceptance Testing – Finally, Some Validation?
User acceptance testing (UAT) is the one form of acceptance testing that must involve stakeholders outside of the project team; the users. UAT provides a formal means for validating that a new system actually meets the necessary user requirements from … Continue reading
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