User Acceptance Testing

Table of contents

1. Front Cover
2. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Contents
6. List of figures and tables
7. Authors
8. Introduction
   1. What this book is about
   2. The role of UAT
   3. The costs and benefits of UAT
   4. The value of UAT – the reasons we need to do it
   5. Stakeholders – who this book is for
   6. How to get the best from this book
   7. Checklists
   8. Case studies
9. 1. The Importance of Uat
   1. What is UAT?
   2. Why test ISs?
   3. Business vulnerability
   4. The UAT process
   5. From UAT to service delivery
   6. UAT and contracts
   7. Stakeholders in UAT
   8. Chapter summary
10. 2. Business Requirements
    1. Business requirements
    2. Business intent and user expectations
    3. Acceptance criteria
    4. The requirement types
    5. Prioritising business requirements
    6. The relationship between business requirements and UAT
    7. The relationship between development and UAT
    8. Scope of UAT
    9. Building a test basis for UAT
    10. Chapter summary
11. 3. Testing Basics for UAT
    1. What is testing?
    2. Test types
    3. Testing processes
    4. Test-case design techniques
    5. Testing approaches for UAT
    6. Reviews
    7. Chapter summary
12. 4. The UAT Team
    1. Stakeholders and the UAT team
    2. Key roles in a UAT team
    3. Creating a successful team
    4. Training the team
    5. UAT training content
    6. The team life cycle
    7. Dealing with team conflict
    8. The working environment and working patterns
    9. Basic disciplines
    10. Chapter summary
13. 5. UAT as Transition
    1. The IS life cycle as a series of transitions
    2. Planning for transitions
    3. UAT as a transitional phase
    4. UAT as an event and UAT as a process
    5. Chapter summary
14. 6. Preparing for UAT – Planning
    1. Deciding what we want to achieve
    2. Acceptance criteria
    3. UAT objectives
    4. Entry criteria
    5. Defining the testing we will need
    6. Creating a test basis for UAT
    7. Setting up the test management controls
    8. Chapter summary
15. 7. Test Design for UAT
    1. The hierarchy of test design
    2. Identifying test conditions
    3. Designing test cases
    4. Designing test scripts
    5. Data creation
    6. Chapter summary
16. 8. Implementing the Tests
    1. The testing schedule
    2. Implementing the test schedule
    3. Identifying progress
    4. The status report
    5. The post-testing summary
    6. Chapter summary
17. 9. Evaluating the System
    1. How do we decide whether or not to accept a system?
    2. When the testing has to stop
    3. The risk of release
    4. Measuring the risk of release
    5. Defining and evaluating emergency-release criteria
    6. Decision process for evaluating UAT results
    7. Test summary report conclusions
    8. The final release decision
    9. Chapter summary
18. 10. Life after UAT
    1. Post-UAT reporting
    2. End-user training
    3. Preparing a roll-out strategy
    4. Implementation
    5. Post-implementation defect corrections
    6. Measuring business benefits
    7. The end of UAT?
    8. Chapter summary
19. Appendix A UAT Checklists
    1. Initiating the UAT project checklist (sponsor)
    2. Planning the UAT project checklist (UAT team leader)
    3. UAT test design checklist
    4. UAT test execution checklist
    5. UAT release decision checklist
    6. Post-UAT actions checklist
20. Appendix B Answers and Comments
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
    9. Chapter 9
21. Appendix C UAT Training
    1. The training process
    2. The training consultant role
22. References
23. Back Cover