I've always treated "user acceptance testing" as end-user testing, and "acceptance testing" as client testing.<div><br></div><div>In my research I've found the two terms used freely in different contexts.</div>
<div>In this case, the following question C14b seems to explicitly aim at end-user acceptance, which hints that c14a is client acceptance.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the problem with an exam testing knowledge of terms that are not in the glossary, and are not always industry-standards. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2012 12:32, Adrian Janson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I agree with your interpretation Mark – user acceptance testing refers to the client (those who have initiated and paid for the software to be developed) and is their opportunity to give feedback on whether the solution actually does what they asked the developers to make it do.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 19 November 2012 12:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] SD exam - C14a<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who should be involved in acceptance testing?<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">This is a bit of an ambiguous one to me, since the in some places "acceptance testing" is used as a synonym for "<b>user</b> acceptance testing".<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">So to some people it could refer to the client like Dr Fischer, to prove that planned functionality actually exists, or a typical end-user like an asthmatic, to see if the software is acceptable to its average users.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">In the end, I opted for Dr Fischer, in the assumption that "user acceptance testing" does emphasise the user rather than the client.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Did anyone else wonder about this possible difficulty in interpretation?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
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