Course Overview

This course is also available as an e-learning course.

Business Acceptance Testing

Business Acceptance Testing focuses on the scope and objectives of acceptance testing, placing it within quality assurance and quality control as a whole so that the unique perspective of the acceptance tester can be understood. Over half of this Business Acceptance Testing course requires the participant to create test scripts using practical test design techniques. Standard ISTQB terminology is used where appropriate meaning that the course is consistent with testing terminology used by BCS (ISEB) qualified testers. A comprehensive course manual is provided and the course can be tailored to reflect the emphasis required by the customer.

Course Content

1. Testing for business acceptance
   • Quality, quality assurance and quality control
   • The objectives of acceptance testing
   • The V model and the place and responsibility of acceptance testing
   • Principles of testing
   • The fundamental test process
   • Functional and non-functional testing
   • Test preparation
   • Model office
2. Scoping and documenting requirements
   • Context diagram
   • Use case diagram
   • Different types of requirements
   • The requirements document
   • The requirements catalogue
3. Test design techniques
   • Terminology, test conditions, test cases, test procedures, test scripts
   • Test design with use cases and activity diagrams
   • Designing test cases from activity diagrams
   • Test design with decision tables and decision trees
   • Defining test cases from decision tables and decision trees
   • Test design with state machine diagrams
   • Defining test cases from state machine diagrams
   • Non-functional testing
4. Test planning, management and confirmation
   • Recording defects
   • Test progress, monitoring and control
   • Confirmation testing
   • Relationship of acceptance testing to benefits management