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You are a successful software development consultant in a large consulting firm (e.g. Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC, Boston Consulting Group). Given your success as a knowledgeable and creative software development professional, your portfolio of clients has grown to include a diverse range of organisations. These include large multi-national companies and government agencies through to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

Part A Short Answer Questions Part A includes 9 questions. You should attempt all the questions (5 marks for each question).

A1. One of your clients is a ride-sharing company that concentrates exclusively on ride-sharing for scooters. They require a short briefing on how to automate acceptance testing for their rideshare application. As part of the short briefing you must briefly describe acceptance testing in terms of its aim and criteria and describe at least one framework suitable for automation of acceptance testing for this application.

Answer 1

As per your question, First I will describe what is acceptance testing and its types. Further, I will describe you how to automate acceptance testing for rideshare application. So, please bear with me:-

Acceptance testing is a very important testing that performed just before the software/product delivery or release in order to validate whether or not the software/product has met the required specifications. It will also able to evaluate the system's compliance with the business requirements and how much the software/product has met the specified criteria for delivery to end-users.

Each business steps require a different type of testings, the following picture illustrates it clearly:-

Acceptance testing can be broadly classified into two major stages:

1. Internal/Alpha Acceptance test- It is performed by the internal staff of the development company before delivering or launching the product to the external customers. Generally, it is performed on a dummy data set environment like emulators that are nothing but a replica of the user environment.
2. External/Beta Acceptance test- It is final testing, performed in the real-time deployment environment and also tries to involves maximum users or type of users of the application.

Automating the well-defined testing process is a demand of the current market, that will help the expert QAs(Quality Assurance) or SDETs (Software Development Engineer in Test) to validate the entire developed system thoroughly and precisely.

Now coming to your question, some basic steps involved in-order to automate the entire user acceptance testing (UAT) efficiently for rideshare application. Which are the followings:-

1. Create and manage acceptance tests according to User Stories of the rideshare application.
2. Build your Acceptance Tests as precise, simple, non-ambiguous, and cheap as possible using well-defined popular opensource tools.
3. Validate and ensure that the developed system layout works off all necessary user actions and attributes
4. Specify and define the entire user acceptance testing as a contract between the customer(rider) and vendor(software/product provider) as follows:-
   • Build UAT as a deliverable object
   • Try to minimize risks by implementing UAT design and testing like an iterative process
   • Let your user acceptance testing defined process to be signed by the customer(rider)
5. Try to execute all the above steps like agile methodology.

I hope, now you have a brief knowledge about the acceptance testing, automating user acceptance testing and how to automate the entire user acceptance testing (UAT) efficiently for rideshare application.

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