Been bz with a few user acceptance testing (UAT) recently. It has been awhile since I last performed a UAT, come to think of it has been 4 years ago since my last UAT.
Not to say that I was happy to be doing it but I was surprised on the manner the UAT which I'm currently undergoing. It seems like the end users were not directly involved in the UAT. I'm the departmental rep, a coordinator like role who translate the business requirements to the software vendor. The real owner of the requirements are the biz users or as we termed it as process owners.
By right it is them to do the UAT together with me since they are the process owners who knows best their business requirements. So, I argued that I need my business people to test the system together with me, the coordinator, but was received strong objections from our technical unit.
So, I just let it be thinking that perhaps I was wrong. Nonetheless I managed to do some research to suppress my curiosity on the subject as well as to self assure that I was correct in arguing my case on the approach of the UAT
So, here are some of the sources I found on the net on the UAT.
Cheerio.
- “What is User Acceptance Testing?,” http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/testing/what-is-user-acceptance-testing.html.
- “Acceptance testing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_testing.
