Course

This User Acceptance Testing Techniques course (UATT) provides practical exercises in UAT test design methods

Audience

The course is intended for users, business analysts, systems analysts and team leaders, indeed anyone who is, or will be, involved in the acceptance testing.

Syllabus – Key points

Introduction:

• Reminder of test principles and life cycles from UATI/FOTO.

Quality management and quality assurance for acceptance testing:

• techniques

Setting acceptance criteria:

• how to set functional and non-functional acceptance criteria;
• when to do this; and
• use of ISO 9126.

Review techniques:

• using review methods to check the requirements and specifications; and
• introduction to inspection, walkthrough and audit techniques.

Documenting tests:

• test conditions, test cases, the test specification and the procedural test script.

Designing user acceptance tests:

• using techniques to check the requirements have been met;
• and examples of techniques suitable for acceptance testing including equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, state transition, syntax, cause effect, classification tree, use cases, process cycle tests.

A practical approach is taken, the techniques are explained and then the group undertake exercises to practise the techniques

Course Overview

In User Acceptance Testing Introduction (UATI) we saw that user acceptance testing is an integral part of the acceptance of all project deliverables, with the business users and their representatives becoming ever more involved in the delivery process as systems become more user focused. But how should acceptance testing be done? What techniques are available to user acceptance testers and how should these be applied?

This course is taken over two days and provides a solid introduction to acceptance test techniques for acceptance testers and acceptance test managers. It gives an insight as to how acceptance testing can/should be carried out. It covers techniques that acceptance testers can use for setting acceptance criteria, carrying out reviews of requirements, designing user acceptance tests and for reviewing processes.

This User Acceptance Testing Techniques course (UATT) provides practical exercises in UAT test design methods. It is recommended that delegates for UATT either attend the Fundamentals of Testing one-day course (FOTO) or the two-day UATI course, or have an equivalent level of knowledge as a prerequisite.

Course Objectives

• To practice techniques used in acceptance testing;
• to set measurable acceptance criteria;
• to review requirements; and
• to design acceptance test cases.

Following on from either FOTO or UATI this course adds practical examples in use of techniques for acceptance testers.

Information:  

About User Acceptance Testing Techniques

This course extends the learning of the User Acceptance Testing Introduction course by teaching students key techniques they will need to apply in providing that a system under development will support the business process one it is implemented.

Alternative courses

• UATT: the ‘how’ of UAT – a two-day course which provides practical exercises in UAT test design methods.
• NFT courses: non-functional testing is an important aspect of the operational or business acceptance of systems.
• SQT4M: Software Quality and Testing for Managers is a one-day introduction to the principles of testing and quality for business, customer and IT managers who need to understand the importance of test and quality activities and how to plan for them. Please call for details about this course as it is run on a private basis only.

Course deliverables

Each delegate shall receive a full set of course materials as both hard copy and on CD for future reference.

Exam

There is no formal exam for this course. Students sitting this course who also want a recognised qualification may care to consider taking the ISEB/ISTQB Foundation course and exam from TSG.

The User Acceptance Techniques course is also available as a private inhouse course.

Pre Requisites

It is recommended that delegates for UATT attend the two-day UATI course, or have an equivalent level of knowledge as a prerequisite.