UAT - User acceptance testing.
When it will be performed? - It depends up on the SDLC the project team is doing. In traditional waterfall, spiral or incremental interative process, the UAT is performed at the last stage (i.e after finishing, functional,regression,end-to-end and performance testing), but now a days, many of the projects are using Agile methodology.
In agile, UAT is performed after every release (or builds), frequent interaction with Business analysts and getting their opinion thru UAT is an important crieteria in Agile methodology.
Ofcourse, in other SDLCs the UAT will be very formal but in Agile, it will be less formal. In Agile methdology also, a final UAT will be done in formal way. |
