Get your team started on a custom learning journey today!
Our Boulder, CO-based learning experts are ready to help!
Get your team started on a custom learning journey today!
Our Boulder, CO-based learning experts are ready to help!
Follow us on LinkedIn for our latest data and tips!
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important because a piece of software needs to work how it’s supposed to for users. A piece of software can pass all sorts of other automated tests and those tests won’t catch the different ways that users actually use the product. That’s what actually matters, right? This is where UAT tests come in. Designing, planning, and implementing them is half of the battle. Executing them is another.
There are some very crucial things that need to be prepared as part of the UAT test plan. This needs to be done before starting the tests or involving other stakeholders. The first thing that needs developing are the scripts. These are what will guide the business users as they test the product. We suggest you have scripts to test both functional and migrated data. Casual scripts are things that you’re hoping is intuitive for the user to find a way to do on their own. Developing the user acceptance test scripts will make sure the users are capable of executing commands/tasks within your system.
You should teach your business users (testers) how to flag and a report bugs. It’s nice if you give them snacks to keep them fueled as they test your software. Before your users start testing your system, you also need to make sure they have all the necessary input data to put into the system. Furthermore, it needs to be very clear what kinds of things you want the user to execute.
What, exactly, do you want them to do or achieve with your product? Having answers to these is all part of having a solid user acceptance testing methodology. These skills should be obvious to any UAT or QA analyst. These should be well documented by product managers or product owners when the software was originally designed.
Here’s a checklist of questions that you should ask yourself before embarking on a UAT test cases:
Following this checklist will help to ensure your test users are able to find your edge case bugs and that they end up well documented (and fixed!).
Customized Technical Learning Solutions to Help Attract and Retain Talented Developers
Let DI help you design solutions to onboard, upskill or reskill your software development organization. Fully customized. 100% guaranteed.
DevelopIntelligence leads technical and software development learning programs for Fortune 500 companies. We provide learning solutions for hundreds of thousands of engineers for over 250 global brands.
“I appreciated the instructor’s technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”
VMwareDevelopIntelligence has been in the technical/software development learning and training industry for nearly 20 years. We’ve provided learning solutions to more than 48,000 engineers, across 220 organizations worldwide.
Thank you for everyone who joined us this past year to hear about our proven methods of attracting and retaining tech talent.
© 2013 - 2022 DevelopIntelligence LLC - Privacy Policy
Let's review your current tech training programs and we'll help you baseline your success against some of our big industry partners. In this 30-minute meeting, we'll share our data/insights on what's working and what's not.
Training Journal sat down with our CEO for his thoughts on what’s working, and what’s not working.