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Acceptance criteria

The acceptance criteria tell us what our Product Owner is looking for to consider this story complete from a business perspective. The acceptance criteria tell us what aspects of functionality the Product Owner will expect to see and test to verify that it works as expected (also known as user acceptance testing).

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