Automated acceptance tests are an essential component of a continuous delivery style testing strategy, as they give an important and different insight into the behaviour of our systems. Developers ...

Traditional in-person factory acceptance testing, also known as witness testing, is a challenge during a pandemic. To keep projects moving, power management company Eaton developed a virtual method to ...

Acceptance testing is a quality assurance (QA) process that determines to what degree an application meets end users' approval. Depending on the organization, acceptance testing might take the form of ...

When adding, modifying, or upgrading a system, many critical infrastructures conduct a factory acceptance test (FAT). A FAT includes a customized testing procedure for systems and is completed before ...

It doesn’t matter what you call it. Here's the bottom line: you need to test software with its future users. One of the topics that create much confusion in the software world is the difference ...

If you think software testing in general is badly misunderstood, acceptance testing (a subset of software testing) is even more wildly misunderstood. This misunderstanding is most prevalent with ...

The investment in a solid factory acceptance test (FAT) pays big dividends and makes a large contribution to a successful project. Rushing to startup, taking shortcuts, or bypassing the FAT typically ...

A piece of major HVAC equipment might list an efficiency rating, but in reality, it’s more like a hope or a wish — with several “if’s” standing between the customer and the performance they are paying ...

The final testing stages by users of a new or changed information system. If successful, it signals the approval to implement the system live. Cosmetic and other small changes may still be required as ...