Showing posts with label Accptance testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accptance testing. Show all posts

Monday, April 04, 2011

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)

Operational acceptance testing (OAT), also called operational readiness testing, is acceptance testing focuses on the operational readiness of the system which is to be deployed to the production environment.

Web services, backup facilities, database connectivity disaster recovery procedures, working with different operating systems, working with different browsers (in case of web based application) etc are various tasks performed in OAT.

Acceptance Testing

Acceptance testing (also called User acceptance testing - UAT) is performed by end user/customers to verify if the solution/product delivered to them meets all requirements, specifications and performs business processes.

  • Falls in black-box testing methodology
  • Also called validation testing, final testing, application testing
  • Can include functional, performance, stress, load testing etc
  • Specific test cases (mapped with requirements) created by end user focusing on specific functionality and priority areas with user defined test data
  • Success of acceptance testing decides GO/ NO_GO decision for the product

Types of acceptance testing: