Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Software Systems Part 2
Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Software Systems Part 2 Test Environment The test environment must be as similar to the production environment as possible. This is simple to accomplish when the application or system is installed on a user's computer but a little more difficult in a client server or hosted environment. The environment should have the same software, hardware, and network configuration as the production environment. The environment should have all the common or shared data from the production environment. It may be possible to simply port this data from QA to UAT. The UAT environment should also have sufficient privately owned data to enable testing. This may be done by selecting one customer to test on, or one product, and to port this data from the production environment where the new system replaces an existing one, or to create the data manually where a manual system is being replaced. Another approach is to simply port all the data i...