8 Acceptance Tests
Of all the disciplines of clean craftsmanship, acceptance testing is the one that programmers have the least control over. Fulfilling this discipline requires the participation of the business. Unfortunately, many businesses have, so far, proven unwilling to properly engage.
How do you know when a system is ready to deploy? Organizations around the world frequently make this decision by engaging a QA department or group to “bless” the deployment. Typically, this means that the QA folks run a rather large bevy of manual tests that walk through the various behaviors of the system until they are convinced that the system behaves ...
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