Testing is a set of activities conducted to facilitate discovery and/or evaluation of properties of one or more items under test. Acceptance criteria are the criteria that a system or component must satisfy in order to be accepted by a user, customer, or other authorized entity.
Standard Glossary of Terms used in Software Testing : 2Īcceptance testing is also known as user acceptance testing (UAT), end-user testing, operational acceptance testing (OAT), acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) or field (acceptance) testing.