Effective User Acceptance Testing

Course Code: 1901

$795

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Overview

During this UAT training course, participants learn to identify the people who should be involved, what these people should be doing, and when and how those activities should be done. It helps participants, especially members of the development teams, to make the best possible use of UAT in their development projects. It equips participants, especially customers or end users, to be effective user acceptance testers.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 1 day

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 1 day

What You'll learn

What is user acceptance testing?
Understanding business needs and requirements
Incremental user acceptance testing
Working with test data
Acceptance test plans

Outline

Module 1: What UAT is and is not?

How UAT is different from other software testing
How UAT fits into various software development lifecycles (including Waterfall and Agile)
Key terms
Identifying the players

Module 2: Understanding the business need

Dimensions of business needs
Addressing the business need dimensions with UAT

Module 3: What could go wrong?

What to focus on when testing?
Risk-based testing

Module 4: ‘U’ is for the User

Testing from the standpoint of all users
Identifying all users
Including all viewpoints in testing

Module 5: Incremental UAT

Incremental approach to UAT
Integrating incremental UAT into any SDLC
Identifying issues early
Reducing surprises at project end

Module 6: Preparing test data

Good tests and test data
Identifying and preparing test data
Limitations, dangers and illegality of using production data for testing
Options for addressing issues

Module 7: The Acceptance test plan

Guidance for UAT plans
Providing enough guidance to ensure effective and repeatable tests
Enabling testers to exercise the system

Module 8: Performing UAT

How acceptance testers should operate while performing UAT
Following UAT plans
Going beyond UAT plans to explore how the system works
Evaluating test results
Reporting issues
Raising questions

Module 9: ‘A’ is for acceptance

Deciding if the system is acceptance or not
Minor defects
Unresolved issues
What it means for the system to be ‘good enough’ in a particular context

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. However, completing the Agile Testing course prior to taking up this course would be beneficial.

Who Should Attend

The course is designed for business managers and system users responsible for conducting user acceptance testing of systems they must depend on, as well as for system and project managers analysts, developers, quality/testing professionals and auditors. The course is highly recommended for –