Practical tips for success

Let us look at some practical tips that may help you during your UAT phase:

• SMEs and knowledgeable users should verify that the test scenarios or scripts are valid and make sense. If the scripts are confusing or documented wrongly, such as creating the right scripts for the wrong processes, this will create unwanted defects and lead to fixing and wasting valuable time on useless defects.
• Testers should follow procedures and documentation but, at the same time, be mindful and have control over what they test. As an expert end user, if they find a test script that doesn’t fit what they usually do, they need to question it so that it can be amended.
• Test core functionality before getting into secondary functionality.
• Test capabilities and functions to make sure they work before going into variants or edge cases.
• Test for high-impact functionality that may cause major issues in case of failure.
• Test things that are newly added...