For design teams, after spending months building a new product, user acceptance testing can be an exciting—and nerve-racking—step in the software development life cycle. Despite UAT’s importance, ...

It doesn’t matter what you call it. Here's the bottom line: you need to test software with its future users. One of the topics that create much confusion in the software world is the difference ...

The decision to change from a functional to a structural test methodology is a far-reaching one. Functional test vectors are meant to check for correct device functionality. Structural test vectors ...

Software has become more granular. Not just in terms of components, de-coupled services, containers and the way we separate parallel programming streams, but also in terms of process. More ...

Master the essentials of user acceptance testing. See the steps project managers must follow to validate software with end users. As a project manager and Scrum Master, I view the UAT team as the “fun ...

Developing information systems is a high-risk occupation and user acceptance testing (UAT) is the backstop that can avoid disasters. Not convinced? In June 2012, the interruption to NatWest and RBS ...