This question appears in Mumbai University > Software Testing & Quality Assurance Subject

Marks: 5 M

Year: June 2012

Acceptance Testing Criteria :

Selection of Acceptance Quality Criteria of a test project :

• The customer needs to select a subset of quality attributes and prioritize them to suit their specific situation.

• The customer also needs to identify the acceptance criteria for each of the selected quality attributes.

• When the customer and the software vendor reach an agreement on the acceptance criteria, the criteria need to be a trade off between time, cost and money.

• Ultimately, the acceptance criteria must be defined according to the business goals of the customer’s organization.

• For example, IBM used the acceptance quality criteria such as capability, usability, performance, reliability, installation, maintenance, documentation and service for its products.

• Acceptance criteria are defined on the basis of quality attributes. Following are the types of acceptance criteria for each quality attribute:

  1.Functional Correctness and Completeness

  2.Accuracy

  3.Data Integrity

  4.Data Conversion

  5.Backup and Recovery

  6.Competitive Edge

  7.Usability

  8.Performance

  9.Start Up Time

  10.Stress

  11.Reliability and Availability

  12.Maintainability and Serviceability

  13.Robustness

  14.Timeliness

  15.Confidentiality and Availability

  16.Compatibility and Interoperability

  17.Compliance

  18.Installability and Upgradeability

  19.Scalability