User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is a critical phase in every project at Modern Tribe. This is when end users interact with the product in a test or sandbox environment to ensure new functionality meets the original requirements. Once all stakeholders approve, we prepare for deployment to the live production environment.

Read on to learn how to prepare your team for UAT, streamline testing, and ensure a successful launch.

Preparing for UAT

There are a few key points during UAT that will help expedite the project lifecycle and ensure a more efficient testing process:

1. Prepare your screenshot, screen share, and feedback tools

Clear communication is essential during UAT. Capturing screenshots or screen recordings with detailed issue reports–including URLs–helps streamline troubleshooting. We recommend using Usersnap or other screen capture tools for efficient feedback collection. 

2. Understand issue types

There are significant differences between the types of feedback you might provide during your UAT review. It’s important to understand the key distinctions between bugs and enhancements.

3. Agree on the impact level and how to prioritize feedback

Each issue should be assigned an appropriate impact ranking to help determine whether it’s critical for launch or can be addressed post-launch, optimizing resources and budget.

Bug Fixing and Final Testing

Once developers have resolved all prioritized feedback, QA and client teams conduct a final review in the test environment to confirm all fixes before deployment.

Deployment

Once UAT feedback has gone through final testing, we request official stakeholder approval to go live. If multiple stakeholders and teams are involved in the project build, we may schedule a Go/No-Go meeting to review and discuss the launch checklist, assign task ownership, and discuss risk mitigation strategies.