Acceptance testing is a step performed to determine whether the business requirements or contracts are met. It involves black box testing against a complete system from a user perspective and its positive result should imply acceptance for the software delivery. Sometimes also called User Acceptance Testing (UAT), end user testing, or beta testing, it is a phase of the development process when software meets the real-world audience.
Many projects rely on manual steps performed by QAs or users to verify the functional and non-functional requirements, but still, it's way more reasonable to run them as programmed repeatable operations.
Automated acceptance tests, however, can be considered difficult due to their specifics:
- User-facing: They need to be written together with a user, which requires an understanding between two worlds—technical...
