Acceptance test
A check against agreed criteria that a solution meets intended user and business needs.
Check fitness for the intended purpose
An acceptance test examines whether a solution meets intended user and business needs against agreed criteria. A criterion states an expectation; the test performs suitable steps and compares actual findings with it. Execution can be manual or automated.
In a fictional example, the responsible person should be able to review a fully justified request and approve it with proper authority. Starting state, expected state and actual result are recorded. An end-to-end workflow can form part of this check. Involve suitable business representatives in evaluation and explicitly record open deviations. One passing case says nothing about untested requirements or workflows.
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Related terms
- Acceptance criteriaAcceptance criteria state verifiable outcomes used to assess whether a requirement meets its intended need.
- End-to-end testA check of an agreed workflow across the system parts essential to it.
- Test tenantA logically bounded customer context of a multitenant application, configured for testing.
- Exit strategyA prepared route to switch, take over or retire an IT service in an orderly way.
- Migration costsEffort and expenditure for the planned move of data or functions to another environment.
- Investment costsCosts of building a new or expanded IT capability, as considered in project planning.
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