The best place is production - there you have all the data. The best team to do it is Development team - they know better how to use it; this is also the reason why no technical documentation is needed. There should be no separate QA environment and separate team. <g>
Funny ? I heard some of the statements above. Spoken seriously Why not? You don't have to create test data, you're working with live data, the real thing, you're testing security at the same time, and there is no migration or cutover needed, you're already there. One of my clients once said this facetiously. We both had a good laugh, but there is some truth to it. ;-) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, R.S. <[email protected]>wrote: > George Henke pisze: > > Would someone please tell me what is "best practices" as to where most of >> the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) should take place? >> >> 1) In the developers' Integration Testing environment and conducted by >> developers >> 2) In the Quality Assuarnce (QA) environment and conducted by QA analysts >> Also where should final user signoff occur? >> > > > The best place is production - there you have all the data. The best team > to do it is Development team - they know better how to use it; this is also > the reason why no technical documentation is needed. There should be no > separate QA environment and separate team. <g> > > Funny ? I heard some of the statements above. Spoken seriously. > OK, IMHO UAT should be conducted *before* QA. The environmnet could be the > same as UAT, but it could lead to bottlenecks - one team waits for another. > IMHO it shouldn't be Integration Testing env. because of bottlenecks too, > even stronger. > Obviously UATs are done by the users, but watch details - who is a user of > batch? Who's responsible for checking performance? > YMMV > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > -- > BRE Bank SA > ul. Senatorska 18 > 00-950 Warszawa > www.brebank.pl > > S d Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru > S dowego, nr rejestru przedsi biorców KRS 0000025237 > NIP: 526-021-50-88 > Wed ug stanu na dzie 01.01.2009 r. kapita zak adowy BRE Banku SA (w ca o > ci wp acony) wynosi 118.763.528 z otych. W zwi zku z realizacj warunkowego > podwy szenia kapita u zak adowego, na podstawie uchwa y XXI WZ z dnia 16 > marca 2008r., oraz uchwa y XVI NWZ z dnia 27 pa dziernika 2008r., mo e ulec > podwy szeniu do kwoty 123.763.528 z . Akcje w podwy szonym kapitale zak > adowym BRE Banku SA b d w ca o ci op acone. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
