Proactive User Acceptance Testing™ (UAT)

Thursday, October 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 6:00  ET

True end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is much more than Agile’s user story acceptance tests, which are useful but limited in value. Projects aren’t complete until users/customers are sure the systems they depend on actually meet business requirements, work properly, and truly help them do their jobs efficiently and effectively. 

However, users seldom are confident or comfortable testing system acceptability.  Project Managers and Testing professionals need to know how to guide and facilitate effective acceptance testing without usurping the user’s primary role. 

This intensive interactive seminar shows what users need to know to confidently make the best use of their time planning and conducting acceptance tests that catch more defects at the traditional tail-end of development, while also contributing in appropriate ways to reducing the number of errors that get through the development process for them to catch in UAT.  Exercises give practice using practical methods and techniques.

• Appropriate testing roles for users, developers, and professional testers; and what each should and shouldn't test.
• Systematically expanding Proactive User Acceptance Criteria™ to an acceptance test plan, test designs, and test cases.
• Supplementing with requirements-based tests, use cases, and high-level structural white box tests..