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Diferences Between System Testing and User Acceptance Testing?

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Diferences Between System Testing and User Acceptance Testing?


Answer1:
system testing: The process of testing an integrated system to verify that it meets specified requirements. acceptance testing: Formal testing with respect to user needs, requirements, and business processes conducted to determine whether or not a system satisfies the acceptance criteria and to enable the user, customers or other authorized entity to determine whether or not to accept the system.
First, I don’t classify the incidents or defects regarding the phase the software development process or testing, I prefer classify them regarding their type, e. g. Requeriments, features and functionality, structural bugs, data, integration, etc The value of categorising faults is that it helps us to focus our testing effort where it is most important and we should have distinct test activietis that adrress the problems of poor requerimients, structure, etc.
You don’t do User Acceptance Test only because the software is delivered! Take care about the concepts of testing!

Answer2:
In my company we do not perform user acceptance testing, our clients do. Once our system testing is done (and other validation activities are finished) the software is ready to ship. Therefore any bug found in user acceptance testing would be issued a tracking number and taken care of in the next release. It would not be counted as a part of the system test.

Answer3:
This is what i feel is user acceptance testing, i hope u find it useful. Definition:
User Acceptance testing is a formal testing conducted to determine whether a software satisfies it's acceptance criteria and to enable the buyer to determine whether to accept the system.
Objective:
User Acceptance testing is designed to determine whether the software is fit for the user to use. And also to determine if the software fits into user's business processes and meets his/her needs.
Entry Criteria:
End of development process and after the software has passed all the tests to determine whether it meets all the predetermined functionality, performance and other quality criteria.
Exit Criteria:
After the verification that the docs delivered are adequate and consistent with the executable system. Software system meets all the requirements of the customer
Deliverables:
User Acceptance Test Plan
User Acceptance Testcases
User guides/docs
User Acceptance Testreports


Answer4:
System Testing: Done by QA at developemnt end.It is done after intergration is complete and all integration P1/P2/P3 bugs are fixed. the code is freezed. No more code changes are taken. Then All the requirements are tested and all the intergration bugs are verified.
UAT: Done by QA(trained like end users ). All the requiement are tested and also whole system is verified and validated.

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