Acceptance Testing

Acceptance test cases are a subset of structured test cases designed to test if the product can perform basic level functionality.

Acceptance cases are categorized as R1 cases, where R1 = (Rotation 1 i.e. test cases to be executed every week when weekly build is published)
These are the critical test cases executed on every Weekly build. All Acceptance test cases would fall in this category.

The following is the acceptance procedure followed by QA:

• QA receives SCM compiled build from R&D.
• QA conducts Acceptance testing on the very day of the publishing of the weekly build by executing all the R1 cases.
• If no R1 cases are failing then the build is declared “Accepted”. QA will now test further on this Accepted build.
• If one or more of the R1 cases are failing then the build is declared “Rejected”. This information is passed on to R&D and PM with the information of the failing test cases and their corresponding defect numbers. QA does not carry on any further testing and continues to work on the older build until a new build has passed the Acceptance criteria.

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