{"id":596,"date":"2020-02-24T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2020-02-24T21:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:27:02","slug":"consulting-project-phases-user-acceptance-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/consulting-project-phases-user-acceptance-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting Project Phases &#8211; User Acceptance Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>User Acceptance Testing<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The User Acceptance Testing phase, commonly abbreviated to\nUAT, is where the actual users of the system begin to test and validate the\nsystems and processes in place. They will be responsible for ensuring\neverything has been implemented to the agreed upon requirements. They will click\nthrough screens, run reports, compare spreadsheets and ensure all numbers and\ndata ticks and ties to the smallest decimal point. These steps should be\noutlined clearly in the test scripts and all issues and errors that surface\nmust be submitted back to the QA, development and delivery team. It is not\nunusual to be in quick fix mode during UAT and this can be the most stressful\npoint of a project as you move towards the finish line. For technical systems, The\nUAT testing will occur in the test environment with data and systems copied\nidentically from production. This will allow the users to work with data they\nare familiar with that has already been validated so that they can compare\napples to apples. When the process is brand new, how you determine what qualifies\nas a \u201cpass\u201d scenario will be defined in the requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you interested in starting a career in consulting? Be\nsure to read the full book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38wE3AO\">Jack of all Trades Master of Some; An Introduction to\nConsulting<\/a> available on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User Acceptance Testing The User Acceptance Testing phase, commonly abbreviated to UAT, is where the actual users of the system begin to test and validate the systems and processes in place. They will be responsible for ensuring everything has been implemented to the agreed upon requirements. They will click through screens, run reports, compare spreadsheets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}