Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance, Volume 1: Thinking

This volume provides an overview of the acceptance process and how acceptance testing and other key practices fit into the process. It is subdivided into three main parts:Part I Thinking about Acceptance explains six mental models that are useful when thinking about the acceptance process.Part II Perspectives on Acceptance describes the acceptance process from the perspectives of key stakeholders in two different kinds of organizations: the Information Technology Department in a business and the Product Development Company. Most readers involved in the acceptance process should find some commonality with at least one of the roles describes.Part III Accepting Software introduces the practices that are necessary for planning the acceptance process, for performing acceptance testing and for improving the acceptance process.