Acceptance Testing Essay

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Acceptance Testing: A survey along with its Operating frameworks

Shreyas Pathak
(Mention Designation)Dept. of Computer Sci. & Engineering, P.R.Pote College, Amravati rushvijaiswal4@gmail.com Abstract-
Testing constitutes one of the most important aspects of software development or most important phase in the software development life cycle. Out of many different types of software testing, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. The acceptance testing is defines as: formal testing with respect to user needs, requirements, and business processes conducted to determine whether a system satisfies the acceptance criteria and to enable the user, customers or other authorized …show more content…

The Main purpose of testing is to check that software meets all specified requirements that guided its design and development. There are many types of software testing techniques that can be performed with in software development life cycle. Out of many software testing techniques, Acceptance testing (AT) is the key feature of software implementation. As the acceptance testing mainly constituents that the system should be acceptable by its owner or user it is also called as User Acceptance Testing (UAT). UAT is performed to ensure that the new system meets all the essential user requirements. It is the final testing activity performed by the customer to test for the completeness, correctness and consistency of the …show more content…

The section III contains Types of Acceptance Testing. In the next section IV contains the most important things that provides the information about frameworks used for acceptance testing, some of them support automation testing also.
Section V contains the advantages of acceptance testing. Final section concluded the paper.

II. Objectives of Testing

The objective of testing is to provide confidence that the developed product meets both the functional and non-functional requirements. It should detect all the possibilities of error that is present in the current developed system and the possibility of coming in the future. As the paper mainly focuses on the Acceptance testing the objective behind (AT) is, the purpose of conducting acceptance testing is that once completed, and provided the acceptance criteria are met, it is expected the sponsors will sign-off on the product development/enhancement as satisfying the defined requirements.

The point wise description of all the objectives of testing from all types to the Acceptance Testing is [4]:

• A good test case is one that should have the probability of finding an as yet undiscovered

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