Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed the need for formal testing and the importance of acceptance criteria to prove the real needs of our users in a production-like environment. We saw how UAT plays a key role in building the confidence of users, preparing the system for deployment, and getting ready for a rollout.

After reading this chapter, you should have a good idea of why the right UAT tester is critical for testing and how you can find the right ones and equip them with the right tools so that they can do UAT effectively and provide us with valuable feedback for addressing any problems so that we can reduce post-production issues and save time and resources.

We have completed our UAT and resolved all our concerns and now it is time to prepare for deployment to the production system. We need to keep the entire user community informed about the upcoming go-live and they need to be trained on how to use the system, as well as where they need to reach out for help. In the next...